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'Chick Lit'
Gawd, how I hate this slur of a term. And compounding it is the tragedy that young women like this one can't see what's wrong with it. Sure, there's a genre out there that could be loosely termed this. Okay, the paperback editions often have warm pastel covers and often revolve around over-worked (but FUNNY) thirtysomethings and the endless ...
Posted to Fiction by me_in_seattle on September 9, 2009
Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities
The perfect limerick is all anapestic. da da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DUM da da DUM So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of ''Maria'' and ''urea'' with ''dysuria''. Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 5, 2009
"Out House Story"...
''But Denny, editors are our FRIENDS...'' ;) I once knew a girl named MariaWho suffered a case of dysuria.There she'd sit on the potEvery chance that she got,And seek to discharge her urea. ------------------------------------------------------------- Well, maybe I can't think of a limerick defining a D-word just now, but my parody gene's been ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 4, 2009
Don't forget the buttprints...
...but of course, I can't reprint that parody of ''Footprints'' without violating your thread's rules. :) wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 26, 2009
Clarifying a potential misunderstanding
White_Rabbit: (...) I have to admit that these are my favorite lines: After a few years, they get over him.They tell their new boyfriends how amazing it was, like living with another woman, but without the spite, the envy,and with a man's strength, a man's clarity of mind. And the men tolerate this, they even smile.They stroke the woman's ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009
Re: Another thought for you Wabbit ()()
I am pretty sure that the protagonist would be seen much more readily as the fool that he is. And the poem would've become very interesting, rather like a train wreck is interesting. :) I have to admit that these are my favorite lines: After a few years, they get over him.They tell their new boyfriends how amazing it was, like living with ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009
Re: "Home, Home ... of the Strange"
Contempo: Bravo! One of your best -- yet. As to the original poem, it is far too long (imho, along with others, it seems) and it is far too repetitive. LG could have used such length to develop the poem & the unfortunate character farther & more deeply; instead she just went on & on, saying the same two things about five times, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
Re: Good Grief MaryAnn
Hi MaryAnn, To be fair, and as I tried to make clear at the outset, it's not the poem I disrespect, nor the poet -- neither as poem qua poem nor as poet qua poet. The poem is worthy enough and the poet good at the craft (at least IMO-FWIW). It would be foolish for me to try to engage such a poem at the level that someone like Paul Breslin does. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
"In the Cafe": Home of the Strange
This one's just too easy a mark. It's not that this poem is too long. It's not that this poem is too silly. It's not even that it's bad poetry (actually, I rather like it qua poetry: it's accessible without being pablum, and very enjoyable in its style and euphony). It's that it makes considerable light of, and really relates in impossible terms, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
Re: This parody ...
Contempo: ''Moan, moan on the Fray...'' So glad to see you have returned ... and with the Tuesday Parody, ''yet.'' Excellent news, this. ''signed,'' ton amie fidele And I should return some other way, amie? :) Sardonically yours, ;)wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 21, 2009

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