Odi et amo! Got that part of it. Ain't no Catullus, Max.... For damn sure.
On 12/2/2014 7:36 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Is that the same as odi et amo?
>
> (agreeing with you, Doug, on this of Ken’s…)
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> M in S
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> On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I think you’re in an idi et amp phase here, Ken: loving what you do eve as you hate it.
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>> But some lines seem a little awkward to me, even as i follow through…
>>
>> Doug
>> On Dec 2, 2014, at 3:37 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Diane is a very good poet who offers period online prompts. I picked up on this one. Don't know why.
>>>
>>> DIANE LOCKWARD'S PROMPT
>>>
>>> Describe, Diane says, something you wholly love.
>>> It is an exercise and I cannot do it because
>>> there is nothing anymore about which I care.
>>>
>>> No one loved. I am not passionate, I am gall, heartburn.
>>> I am a thief who burgles better poets' lines
>>> because I do not have their car keys.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you mean my cat? Oh, I love him,
>>> he does not walk in beauty, but instead
>>> like a conqueror, my crotch is his realm
>>>
>>> or he strides with firm prance across my desk.
>>> Who am I to whine, no one at all,
>>> I can wince from pain but still I'll feed him,
>>>
>>> how bad then can it be, and it is not,
>>> it is travels far less tangled than my own, where
>>> nothing ever happened of excitement,
>>>
>>> even my '67 trip to Mexico, we got laid,
>>> we got drunk, smoked dope, climbed a pyramid, none of it
>>> seemed to happen, for it was all lost in a fog:
>>>
>>> tequila and pulque and pot, and still I was too young
>>> to feel what I felt or see what I saw, too dense
>>> to see how I was being misshaped for my future.
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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>> that we are only
>> as we find out we are
>>
>> Charles Olson
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