Saturday, August 4, 2012

How 2 Be a POET

Learn how to be a poet!

...but then, if that doesn't work for you, maybe you should take Matt Groening's advice-- complete with test!-- How To Be a Sensitive Poet.


(sigh. I miss Life in Hell )

2 comments:

  1. Life Is Hell
    (a found poem mostly Matt Groening)

    I saw a genius in the mirror today
    Across the lonely beach I wander
    Near the lonely knoll I weep
    On the lonely cliff I loiter
    Alas, the hornets buzzing in my brain

    Autumn death pain trees
    The cosmos critics beauty
    Clouds suicide dreaming
    Leaves yourself loneliness
    Futility blight depression
    Decay loss entropy love
    Flowers branches tree stumps

    Can you face disdain?
    Can you face ridicule?
    Can you face utter indifference?

    Answers don't matter
    Recognition isn't nothing
    Everything is impossible
    In a cosmic sense

    Let your mind drift
    Set your soulfree
    Get tranced
    Sit in your cubbyhole waiting waiting

    A sensitive poet
    writes view of creaky old barn
    sonnets your mom
    fleeing emotion from no understand
    complex symbol's private plan

    Subjects, guts, exercizes,
    you will need
    pencil. paper, somber clothing
    and credit for this cartoon

    Submit
    Don't read
    Cuiltivate

    -- Smith, 8.12.2012

    ReplyDelete