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MLLASH
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You remember back when you fancied yourself the latest Emily Dickinson and went to poetry slams, don't you? I have to look back at a lot of my writings and just laugh my butt off!

Here's a gem I found, dated May 1993... (hmmm... that puts me past the teen years) It's a real side-splitter; I bet at the time I thought it was Very Serious and Important!


RAPUNZEL HAS LOST HER HAIR

She is screaming as she stares
down the cold, rocky tower
at the man lying in
a pool of blood and mounds
of matted hair

She is crying as she recalls
the past few hours:
The man called to her
"Let down your tresses that I
may scale this tower!"

She is shaking as she moves
her delicate hands across her scalp;
Where the follicles were torn
there is simply nothing there.

She is fainting from the terror:
the last sound to touch
her ears is the voice
of people yelling
"Rapunzel has lost her hair!"

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Didn't.
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[Laugh Out Loud]

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I can best that MLLASH.

"We sit, not too far apart for wanting.
But, far too far from having.
If the world would spin differently,
we'd fall into each others arms."

April '87, outside of Chem 201 class.

(Sigh, he was cute though.)

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Actually that's very sweet, QL! I love it.

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I'm waiting for the cheese poem, Lash...

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After I got a bad grade on a poetry analysis paper (did my teacher ever personally ask Mr. Shakespeare exactly what his sonnet meant? I don't think so), I wrote a completely bitter, angsty, nonsense poem during lunch hour in about 10 minutes and gave it to a friend, who did a hilarious line-by-line analysis. What do you think it means?

An Insignificant Speck in the Universe
by Eric

i am an old barn, creaking, creaking
and my roof is leaking, leaking
inside me a mouse is sneaking, sneaking
along the hay-strewn floor

a little boy is peeking, peeking
for something his is seeking, seeking
his tennis shoes are reeking, reeking
his friends think he's a bore

outside a dame is eeking, eeking
surely she is freaking, freaking
the big strong dog is meeking, meeking
children? they have four

the wind 'round me is shrieking, shrieking
the tumultous sound is peaking, peaking
bright lightning now is streaking, streaking
the old barn is no more

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Wotta great idea! And some great angsty stuff on display here!

Mine is from my teen college years:

His country is taxing him,
He pays in carbonated twitches,
His sweat a fickle, trickling stream,
Snaking its way down his river bed.
His legs jerk: an earthquake of limbs.

Divorced from his control,
The union of eyes fixated like statues,
And heartbeats like thunder and acid,
Anxiously awaiting anullment.

And inches from his face, his partner, his crutch,
Unravels like failing vision.

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Wow, I feel so embarrassed.

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Strangely, although I didn't name check Rapunzel, I also have angsty teen poetry about someone's hair coming out.

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Wow, Seymor, Rokk-- you guys were as full of teen/college angst as I was. Thanks for sharing it, I thoroughly enjoyed your poetry, do MORE!

Cramey, the cheese poem is really, REALLY bad! You don't wanna read it!

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quote:
Originally posted by MLLASH:
Wow, Seymor, Rokk-- you guys were as full of teen/college angst as I was. Thanks for sharing it, I thoroughly enjoyed your poetry, do MORE!

Cramey, the cheese poem is really, REALLY bad! You don't wanna read it!

Yes I do. More cheese, please.

Great stuff, everybody! Mine was so bad it got burned long ago. But I'm sure it was over-brimming with soulful angst and suffering.

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Fine, but don't laugh TOO hard, you might shatter my gentle poet's psyche! This piece of crap is dated October 1990. Aah, a mere babe in swaddling cloth I was then! I'm sure I had been just traumatized by something I thought I'd never recover from...! Some callous bastard MAN, no doubt! And where in the hell did I get the notion that I knew anything abour cheese in France?


I tried and failed
Well at least I tried
But the key word here is "failed".

Of all the cheesemongers
Cheese-whizzes and cheeseballs
I've met I have proved by far
to be the cheesiest.

In France, the best cheese is runny
with a tiny hint of mold-
That's like me, so I've shown.
Too cheesy for words or company
and now
the cheese stands alone.


>edited for spelling<

[ August 24, 2003, 12:43 PM: Message edited by: MLLASH ]

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That is absolutely amazing! I love cheese...

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Author! Author!

You're the Poet Laureate for the Legion of Super-Cheese Villains! It's a Feta Compli!

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I think I'll go lie down and die now! *big grin*

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