Mysterious Timeless Revolutionary Recasts

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[champagne1982]

LOL.. are you going to show us a work in progress then? Let's see your process laid bare. A strip show would be a propos ici, non?

 

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[champagne1982]

Pencil
hmmm,
pencil

pen cell?
Cellular pens?
Talking farm animals?

Penile.
Hmmm,
peninsular penile penciled
code sellers
coat sale
goats

hmmm, not the goats
coats, pencils...
Coated pencils?
Coded penile goats?
Peninsular pencils?
but what does it mean?

A cellular pencil!

decoder optional

Brave soul.

 

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[unpredictablebijou]

It isn't finished by the way.

By the way, it should be obvious this is not finished, yet.

And it could hardly be called poetic, or even a poem.

But something - say, the pencil itself, could turn into something - with lines, even.

A pencil seller

One who sells pencils

A cellar of pencils

Pencils in the cellar

Pencil Central

Pensive Centrist

If it were me, I'd meditate on how a pencil is long and hard, is slick and warm and pleasant when held in the hand or toyed with in the mouth, and contains within its core a substance which, when utilized properly and skillfully, can actually change all of reality.

But that's just me.

bijou

 

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[unpredictablebijou]

And let us not forget that even the crevices are open to various degrees of expansion or tightening.

Wow, you noticed that too?

kewl.

bj

 

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[unpredictablebijou]

You mean the gaping gap?

Hey now, watch that.

 

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[foehn2]

i must be bi-poetical. i can't decide who is prettier, hmmnmm or bijou.

and it was too a poem, dang it.

but then, everything in this sunami'd thread seems poetic to me, thus far.

shit, i can't write four sentences without referring to poetry, in some form or fashion. (i also had trouble typing 'fashion') sigh

 

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[foehn2]

bijou keeps getting compliments, doesn't she. well, she deserves them.

honestly, "poetic" is not a term i like, very much. i guess you could chalk some of that up to the people who taught me. whatever the case, as you kind of referred to, when we try too hard, we kind of foul it up.

so, i kind of like the idea of "playing around." i'm not quite able to get there all the time, but it seems like the most meaningful things, to others who read my crap, kind of bubble out as things i haven't tried too hard on.

 

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[wildsweetone]

Any time any one decides to attach a word or a name to any thing a boundary is immediately set in place beyond which the thing no longer can be called what some one named it. It is bothersome when we are confronted with something but don't know what to call it - sometimes.

I mean, I didn't even know such a thing as prose poetry existed until I began to mingle on the beach, here. Someone else noted that some of what I'd written resembled prose poetry, to which I replied, "what's prose poetry?" from which point I made the near-fatal mistake of doing some internet research and found that the distinctions between prose poetry and poetry and prose are hotly disputed by 'experts' from all sides.

For our immediate purposes here with Lit, I know that to be considered a 'story' the minimum word count is 750 and it should be written in recognizable paragraph form. If something is under 750 words, but it still appears in recognizable paragraph form, then you can submit it as poem, and it will be regarded as a poem, though a prose poem - at least by some. Others are going to say, "that's just a short prose piece, flowered up with a lot of metaphoric ribbons." Another may say, "Oh but those very metaphoric ribbons are what makes it a prose poem rather than a straight piece of prose." Then you can really create problems if you say, "well, I'll just break that sucker down into some lines so it looks more like a poem. That should solve the matter." But no. Someone is bound to come along and say, "that's no poem. It just looks like a poem. It's really nothing more than prose, broken into lines so it looks like a poem."

Meanwhile, the one who composed and then exposed it wishes for peace all around, and really doesn't care what anyone else feels it should be called, and with utmost grace and respect to all warring factions, says, "It is not a poem, nor a prose poem, nor a piece of prose. It is a grape." Thinking the matter solved, the one who renamed the batch of words a grape, turns to go about his or her business, when one of the previously warring factions says, "I'd say it's more of a berry than a grape."

Sorry, forgot the point, the point being: I like the 'playing around' too. And like you, once in a while something seems to 'bubble' up, as though it could really become something. What that something ends up being? Bill or George, anything but Sue!

i wrote a bunch of short shorts (200 or 500 word stories) when i was learning the art of removing rubbish and compiled them into one submission for Litland. anything is possible when you want to achieve something.

you should write like this more often, collate all your small writes and publish them as 5 minute humourous reads in paperback. they're fun to read.

and having suggested that to you, i suppose you are now already thinking about writing a novel set in 17th century France.

playing around is such fun

 

[champagne1982]

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Meanwhile, the one who composed and then exposed it wishes for peace all around, and really doesn't care what anyone else feels it should be called, and with utmost grace and respect to all warring factions, says, "It is not a poem, nor a prose poem, nor a piece of prose. It is a grape." Thinking the matter solved, the one who renamed the batch of words a grape, turns to go about his or her business, when one of the previously warring factions says, "I'd say it's more of a berry than a grape."

Sorry, forgot the point, the point being: I like the 'playing around' too. And like you, once in a while something seems to 'bubble' up, as though it could really become something. What that something ends up being? Bill or George, anything but Sue!

LOL

Here's a thread about the naming of a formula -- What About Bob?

 

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[unpredictablebijou]

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And, I'd say I'm far less pretty than bijou, though I may be handsomer. This only guess, since I may be less handsome than bijou, as well as not quite as pretty.

I am not at all handsome. First one to suggest that gets a black eye. The phrase "handsome woman" always comes up for those stout, omnicompetent matrons in British dramas. I am definitely not omnicompetent.

hmmnmmmmmmm can be prettier than I am too. I'm not attached to that.

I'd like to see every one of you in a bathing suit, frankly. I'm funny that way.

bj

 

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[foehn2]

bijou is more pretty than hmmnmm but less handsome than x. hmmnmm is more prettier than y but far less handsomer than v. If x is less prettier than y and y is more handsomer than v but not quite as virile as u, how many bathing suits will m be able to buy with a C note, after already buying dinner for z, assuming m began with 2 C notes?

more prettier? less handsomer? lol, i just heard Geo. Bush quoted on TV (Letterman collects his quotes) "Childrens do learn!"

God, we're good, and I'm kind of fond of the phrase, 'kind of.' And I think the answer to this mathematical riddle is 3, but I'm not sure. I never passed that odd course they gave at Texas A & M University, 'Calculus of the Soul 221.'

 

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