Comments on: Reflex

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:08:53 +0000

I don’t know. Its time is past.

By: Rebecca Clayton

Rebecca Clayton — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:35:54 +0000

OK. Several days have passed, and I’m still obsessing over verb tense. (Present perfect, plus present progressive.) I had not thought about verb tenses lately, but it seems I have lost the past tense. (Past perfect, present, present perfect.) Where can I find it again?

By: marly

marly — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:41:50 +0000

I don’t want to make anything out of it, but it might be interesting to see you try.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:52:26 +0000

The thing is, it’s a great IDEA for a poem — the two women setting their phones down while they go off to the bathroom. The author failed to make anything interesting out of it.

By: marly, handmaid of Euterpe(e)

marly, handmaid of Euterpe(e) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:50:03 +0000

Woohoo indeed!

Most amusing.

I must say that the one that I “collected” is the all-time anti-poem.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:00:30 +0000

I can’t stand the Writer’s Almanac, or Mr. Keillor’s anondyne approach to “good poems” in general. I did a melange of some customer reviews of Good Poems a few months ago (note: this IS a poem):
http://www.vianegativa.us/2006/09/10/good-poems/

By: marly, handmaid of Euterpe(e)

marly, handmaid of Euterpe(e) — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:26:03 +0000

http://thepalaceat2.blogspot.com/2006/04/dear-mr-keillor.html

There. I knew that I had collected something that would speak to Teju about the nature of poetry… He gave me a little offering, so now I give him one in return.

And since it can be given more than once, I also give it to you, Dave!

By: marly

marly — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:25:22 +0000

Dave,

I do hope you’re holding on tight. You’re much too big for that wispy tree…

Teju,

I wonder, where did he get the one in the bucket hat and the companion-in-wig? If not a wig, what? Something parasitical, no doubt. I think I will leave Marly Gomont off my list of Marly-sites to visit, now that you have shown it to me…

By: Teju

Teju — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:00:08 +0000

Marly, thanks for understanding.

I make an effort to say true things about Dave. I can’t be held responsible if some of them happen to be nice.

Anyhow, Marly, here’s an offering, specially for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcaURt7kPI

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:54:27 +0000

â€œAjeria,â€? though, is lodged somewhere between one thing and another, so perhaps Teju Cole is likewise.

Well, that might be a good way to put it. You read his recent short story, perhaps, about a man named Teju Cole who was clearly the author’s antithesis in most important ways? Hence the quotation marks. And the prisoner who committed suicide in that story bore the name of a previous blog-incarnation, one of four since I’ve known him.

As for dullness: to a porcupine, I’m sure, wood tastes delicious. He’s probably glad that not too many other critters feel the same way.

O.K., off to go chew on my too-small sapling. Must update the smorgasblog…