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to participate's to be a winner. the no-shows are the losers
dustystar's poem, a tangential off-shoot from Carlos Williams' Red Barrow poem, got me inspired so, i'll post a poem and you guys use it to parody or springboard from. if you like, leave a different poem by someone well known for others to tamper with
here you go:
Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Rich
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.
Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
dustystar's poem, a tangential off-shoot from Carlos Williams' Red Barrow poem, got me inspired so, i'll post a poem and you guys use it to parody or springboard from. if you like, leave a different poem by someone well known for others to tamper with
here you go:
Miracle Ice Cream by Adrienne Rich
Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.
Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
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