"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
Saturday, September 01, 2007
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the man had been hanging friends thought he was doing an art piece and other poems
Yes, I did a hokku instead. On purpose, swiping HAT's accident as an actual technique. This whole thing is somewhat about plagiarism, yes? So plagiarising her brilliant oops seemed not only smart but fair. And it's also five in the morning, which seems a reasonable justification for just about anything.
My first two lines are from this article about a man who killed himself at Burning Man:
The last COULD have come from many places, but in fact came from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Other Poems, although in the Burning Man context, perhaps his poem "The Hollow Men" is more appropriate.
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Yes, I did a hokku instead. On purpose, swiping HAT's accident as an actual technique. This whole thing is somewhat about plagiarism, yes? So plagiarising her brilliant oops seemed not only smart but fair. And it's also five in the morning, which seems a reasonable justification for just about anything.
My first two lines are from this article about a man who killed himself at Burning Man:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/01/MNQ1RP7VN.DTL
The last COULD have come from many places, but in fact came from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Other Poems, although in the Burning Man context, perhaps his poem "The Hollow Men" is more appropriate.
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