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01 February 2007

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1) I am ill. God damn hate it. Had to leave work early - stuck on the sofa with a general feeling of malaise and the uncomfortable sensation that there's some food stuck half way down my throat.

2) So, I'm just telling you this now. I've pledged that this February I'm gonna write 28 poems. (On average - 1 a day). If I don't do it, I'm donating £10.00 for each unwritten piece to a charity. I'm thinking the Open Rights Group or Oxfam. Any suggestions welcome. I'll place the poetry up on my vox page. And you can hold me to it.

3) My friend has more friends than me. Myspace friends that is. I need another 8 to beat her. Not that I use myspace or anything. I just need more friends. Please be my friend.

post by: seanyboy at: 14:42 | 31 comments

Done!

posted by Lola_G 01 February | 14:47

1) Go to the doc. Don't argue.

2) yay! I think you should take poem requests from the group. My request: Something with the word "ebullient"

3) I have no myspace; can I still be your friend? How about your "special" friend?

posted by taz 01 February | 14:49

Does haiku count? You can crap those things out.

posted by knave 01 February | 14:51

Does haiku count? You can crap those things out.

Shit, yeah - just hire Doohickie on a freelance basis

posted by trondant 01 February | 14:53

I will do my part;
Now you have another friend.
Hey, look! A haiku!

posted by mrmoonpie 01 February | 14:55

ebullient haiku
fill the winter skies like birds
joyously crapping

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 February | 14:56

Poem requests are good. I'll take them. The more, the merrier.

Doctors. I'm too worried about my general lack of health to go to the doctors. I'm scared he's gonna diagnose something awful. Plus, the last time I went to the doctor I thought I was having a heart attack and it turned out I was just hungry.

I'm afraid that your offers of friendship mean nothing if they don't swell my myspace friend ranks. :-)

No, haiku don't count.
Like Dookickie I'm capable
of crapping them out.

posted by seanyboy 01 February | 14:58

You must do at least one sestina or villanelle or you are not HARDCORE.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 01 February | 15:02

haiku in haiku
out, as they say in certain
waste treatment chap books

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 February | 15:02

My favorite haiku, cribbed from a cheap, short-lived student newspaper at the University of Chicago from about 6 years back:

The turd lies frozen,
long since issued from an ass.
It has ceased to stink.

...seemed somehow appropriate here.

posted by felix betachat 01 February | 15:03

Good luck with the poems! A friend of mine writes a poem a day. Check it out.

posted by interrobang 01 February | 15:05

One Sestina Ordered. I don't really like the form of sestina or villanelle as they're both really hard to do well, but I'll give it a go.

posted by seanyboy 01 February | 15:10

I think the secret is to imagine them as chants or incantations. The very few times I've tried a sestina (never done a villanelle*) that's how it came out in my brain.

*Yeah so basically I'm not HARDCORE.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 01 February | 15:24

1. Sorry to hear you're under the weather.
2. Poetry and welding are two examples of actions rarely improved by deadline pressure.
3. Friends don't let friends myspace.

posted by paulsc 01 February | 15:30

Showdown 2007: OxFam Versus Poetry

Wooo! I'm cheering for Poetry!

posted by mullacc 01 February | 15:31

I want one containing the term "cellar door".

posted by matildaben 01 February | 15:34

1. Sorry you're illin'. Hope you're well in time for the weekend.

2. Good luck cranking out those poems. Are you going to share them with us?

3. I added you as my friend.

posted by smich 01 February | 15:37

Okay, we're friends now. Which is cool, because I hated being mortal enemies like we were.

posted by scody 01 February | 15:41

If you'll do the sestina, I guess I'll do the villanelle.
And crap one out as if it were haiku,
Because, you see, I'm bored as Hell.

I'm useless, too, so I guess I might as well.
My thoughts congealed like last-week's road-kill stew.
If you'll do the sestina, I guess I'll do the villanelle.

Can you hear the ocean? I am an empty shell
Of nacre and regret. But here's to you,
Because, you see, I'm bored as Hell.

This is starting to depress me, truth-to-tell.
Constraints reveal a measure measured true.
If you'll do the sestina, I guess I'll do the villanelle.

And so with humor I will try to now dispel
Any awkward pretense of an honest view.
Because, you see, I'm bored as Hell.

There's nothing to see here, but there is an awful smell:
Of cheap rhymes scraped from the bottom of my shoe.
If you'll do the sestina, I guess I'll do the villanelle.
Because, you see, I'm bored as Hell.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 February | 16:07

*claps*
*claps louder*

posted by seanyboy 01 February | 16:11

Nice!

posted by gaspode 01 February | 16:38

"cellar door"

because Tolkien thought it was the most beautiful-sounding phrase in English?

posted by Miko 01 February | 16:50

cellar door rhymes with
both hardcore and nevermore
thus quoth the Rainman

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 February | 16:58

Ok, when you see "connie" request your friendship on MySpace, that would be me. Howwzat?

posted by bunnyfire 01 February | 16:59

1. Soup and/or comfort food and sleep
2. Cool on the poems
3. I used to have a myspace account, sorry I can't add you

*marks IRFH's poem as a favourite*

posted by deborah 01 February | 17:04

1. Sleep -- accept it.
2. Yeah!
3. Added you through/to the band's friends.

posted by safetyfork 01 February | 17:19

That (the villanelle) was magnificent, Flo.

posted by Lentrohamsanin 01 February | 18:50

hi seanyboy!

*waves*

i never use that myspace account but I added you anyways :)

posted by lonefrontranger 01 February | 18:56

Seanyboy,
I thought you wanted myspace friends....

I'm feeling a bit rejected, buddy!

posted by bunnyfire 02 February | 13:12

I never rejected you.
Your myspace friend list hasn't updated - Check your comments.

posted by seanyboy 02 February | 13:30

OOOOOhhhh....

Nebber mind. What a n00b am i.

posted by bunnyfire 02 February | 13:54

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