Awesomest comment ever finishes the limerick that begins with the line, “There was a sperm donor named Onan.”
“Bountiful,” by Michael Waters
when i was five
i went fishing with my family
my dad caught a turtle
my mom caught a snapper
my brother caught a crab
i caught a whalethat night we ate crab
the next night we ate turtle
the next night we ate snapper…
(by Tao Lin)
Marilynne Robinson, reviewing Harold Bloom’s and Jesse Zuba’s anthology, American Religious Poems speaks about and around what we’ve been discussing elsewhere.
A nice poem.
On the occasion of my own thirtieth birthday, I enlist someone else to speak for me.
There is one other quite famous Latin American poem dedicated to Papa Whitman… I shall post it soon. This is great, I post poems. You read them, or you don’t. But it gives the allusion of being active. Even if I don’t write on all the stuff I had thought I would, like Bobby V’s book and other things.
Since everyone seems so keen on poetry…
Nothing like a little argentine poetry.
“The Dresser” by Nurse Whitman (1867)
another poem… from yours truly… not jorie, not linda, not paul, not john, not ringo, not george
The poet in question is Jorie Graham, and history.
It’s obviously a first draft… and who knows if I should continue with it… but for your reading pleasure, I give you the first scribblings of mine in over a year.
poems for easter…one day, if i ever write again, i might post one of mine.
3 hauntingly beautiful poems. I may have posted them in the past… I don’t remember. But, they’re worth multiple readings.
I have the habit of checking out McSweeney’s online every week or so.
