Bad Poetry Contest

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

brian_palmer — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:29:35 GMT

I thought this was supposed to be bad poetry?

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

Homer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:32:12 GMT

I meant to hit the report abuse button because that's what this thing is when it comes to poetry.

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

White_Rabbit — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:22:09 GMT

Something tells me you're going to win this contest. I hope the prizes are good (I haven't read them).

Thumbs down -- way down! :)

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

paljoey53 — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:59:35 GMT

godawrrrful

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

laurajune — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:51:25 GMT

Skim that oil slick. Yuck.

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

Juiceman — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:42:24 GMT

Not a clue. Not a freaking clue.

Re: Sisyphus Among the Philistines

waltz n capsize — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:04:07 GMT

dammit. more competition. and here i thought antiquity equaled quality.

proof i was wrong.

blackthumb for sisyphus.

w n c

Sisyphus Among the Philistines

X. P. Callahan — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:52:08 GMT

And he rolls, rolls, rolls that big rock up that mountain
and lets it drop
along with names like Ulysses and Aphrodite
and Apollo and Artemis and Zeus
as well as the name on the white plastic tag
pinned on that red-polyester-jacketed velvet-eyed
curly-haired
little divinity skimming the oil slick
from the surface of the avgolemono
in the stainless-steel soup pot at the Terra Linda
Safeway salad bar.

We must imagine Sisyphus happy, said Camus.

Rolling, rolling, rolling, Sisyphus keeps rolling,
no dipping for him of tootsies into the Lethe,
however that river is pronounced,
pushing and pushing and letting that big rock roll
right back down again and again.

When all of a sudden Sisyphus is plucked
from his eternal task and plunged
into the cold cold blue blue of the Aegean,
and not a soul in the workshop has a freaking clue why.