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Nicole rightly pointed out that as the Low Overhead POETRY and Performance Art Collaborative we really should have a menu item for poetry. So, here it is.




A NEW collaborative poem, with a common refrain
(inspired by peaceful feline relations everywhere)

REFRAIN:
You don't know
If it's friend or foe
And that's why you've got to sniff it!


Sniff it good.

Slim said to Mini
Whose butt is this?
They all look alike
Until the sniff

REFRAIN

N said to her kittens
That bourbon's no good
For little kittites
But drink it they would

REFRAIN

ollie told ferd

that suitcase is mine, twit!

you can sniff it a little

but only I can lie on it.


Uh, what was that other poem we were talking about doing?



A poem for Thasnai



A NEW collaborative poem!



Melissa, ranting, suggested that the woman who requested a smoking hotel room with a king-sized bed not too far from the elevator is exactly what's wrong with America. Lopapac agrees that she is clearly a stroke waiting to happen, but thinks that perhaps the idea "that's what's wrong with America" might make for a good collaborative poem. In that spirit, then, we invite you to add a line:
But some of us, being over-literal, believed this was
the poem, since it begins so poetically, with Melissa, ranting,
and that nice internal rhyme, suggesting and requesting, not
to mention king and smoking,

Maybe it's all a poem. The poetry is where you find it, man.
Or is that our mission statement?

That's what's wrong with America


Melissa, ranting, suggested that the woman who requested a smoking hotel room with a king-sized bed not too far from the elevator is exactly what's wrong with America.
Driving your SUV two blocks to the Starbucks in front of which you double park because the nearest space is further than just walking from your apartment would have been too easy: first you drive one block to the gym, because walking on a treadmill is better than walking down the street where a homeless person might accost you and ask for the loose change from your purchase of a $5.45 venti, except you haven't been to Starbucks yet, you've only been to the gym, where
you've done your best to exercise without getting sweaty or ruining your hair and makeup (sheesh, ever heardofa shower?) because next stop is Whole Foods, where




This week's featured collaborative poem:

Anyone can add a line to a collaborative poem, right on this very page

Here's one to (st)art with:

Lonely the, lot of a body double
lots and lots of body doubles
feel lonely. You are not
a tit man but a tit
or a bit - crazy? it's trouble
for the obsessive, body
double or not, to check check
mate in four, or to wit
--no, outwit--your loving rival.
Here it's just survival of the
wittiest, the ever-


Books we bought we didn't realize we already had
join a list of superfluous acquisitions already in progress
it's a commentary on consumer culture, man



Spam, A Readymade Poem, Or, Are You A Tit Man?



Spam II (another readymade poem)



Henry Resurrected

It's back!


Poem waiting to be written:

A Generous Assortment of Top-Notch Cured Meats


Other poem waiting to be written:

Lights for Cats (for Roland Barthes)


 

 


Comments:

From nicole - 4/23/04 1:07 PM

and good for you, f.j. This will give you something with which to fill your days, since we all know you're not really working when you don't answer the phone.

From fj young [24.136.11.15] - 4/22/04 11:04 PM

see--i added a line. and i already feel the crazy feeling coming on.


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