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Mon Jan-19-09 12:41 PM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 1/19/2009) |
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Love Theory
The argument, I think, was over medieval bishops using a mace instead of a sword to circumvent canonical law admonishing against the spilling of blood. Or about the term fin-de-siècle and the origins of “sweetypants.” And then about what chemical can be used to burn off a single layer of your skin or the way the words sex and mockingbird are not interchangeable but could be if only we’d agree to start saying, “Look at that beautiful sex singing from the shagbark tree,” or, “I mockingbirded her good last night.” Which is not the same thing as whether a mace can bludgeon and maim and kill without shedding a single drop of uncanonical blood, which is not the same thing as whether great planetary system makes a promising metaphor for love, which is not the same thing as whether there is more beauty or horror in the enormous chandelier of human bones hanging from the chapel in Sedlec in the Czech Republic. All there was was argument. And then, later, we heard a mockingbird singing from a shagbark tree.
Doug Ramspeck
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Mon Jan-19-09 12:43 PM
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Mon Jan-19-09 03:50 PM
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Mon Jan-19-09 01:40 PM
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This is so beautiful!
Thank you...
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Mon Jan-19-09 04:49 PM
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I was away for a few days, but I'm back. I think Doug Ramspeck should write a poem based around his last name.
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Mon Jan-19-09 10:19 PM
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Just got back from Pittsburgh myself.
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