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By: Speechless, the video | Via Negativa

Speechless, the video | Via Negativa — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:45:11 +0000

[...] video version of my poem from last week. It took about four hours to make, process, and upload a video for a poem that I [...]

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:06:28 +0000

Oh, I see. Well, I could swear I’ve seen it, but it’s been many years, and I might be mistaken.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:05:32 +0000

Heee! Love it.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:05:08 +0000

There you go.

By: dale

dale — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:15:25 +0000

Oh, I know the body moves, and I imagine the bird is still conscious for a while. CF Camus re guillotining. It’s the beak being able to open and close without the muscles of the neck being anchored that inspired my anatomical doubts :-)

Sorry to take it as autobiographical. I know better than that.

By: Kass

Kass — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:14:59 +0000

…reminds me of my sons winning entry to Salt Lake City’s Deseret News Bad Writing Contest (not that yours is bad):
“He felt that his life was like a man with no index fingers – pointless.”

By: Therese Broderick

Therese Broderick — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:25:44 +0000

Maybe the “I” of this poem is the Republican Party, and its former companion(now chicken liver) is Mr. Wilson. ;)

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:56:02 +0000

I love the name of the sidebar, carolee!

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:18:59 +0000

I liked the truth & the structure (line lengths receding). The simplicity of a graphic metaphor.

I wish I had said it, too — especially as it turns the “running around like a chicken with its head cut off” phrase upside down.

And because many days I feel the same way.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:57:52 +0000

Thanks. I am always hoping other people will imitate Smorgasblog.