understatement poems - challenge

[wildsweetone]

Charles Bukowski - To The Whore Who Took My Poems

some say we should keep personal remorse from the
poem,
stay abstract, and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone and I don't keep carbons and you have
my
paintings too, my best ones; its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn't you take my money? they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I'm not Shakespeare
but sometime simply
there won't be any more, abstract or otherwise;
there'll always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.

[quoted from americanpoemsDOTcom]

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Understatement

Understatement refers to the intentional downplaying of a situation's significance, often for ironic or humorous effect.

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so, the challenge is...

write an understatement poem and post it here.

 

[FifthFlower]

Doing Him

It sounds like Bukowski is overstating the significance of having his poems stolen rather than understating it for humorous effect.

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She lets some random boyfriend have his way
And cuckolds hubby on their wedding day.

 

[champagne1982]

carrie champagne - to the knob gobbler without elements of style
let me say that I am no proponent
of rigid punctuation
really
just
have you ever really thought about it
how would we convey
nuance
inflection
intelligent interjection
if in our meagre minds we chose
to simply write on and on
without those
pesky spots and dots and curlicues
that inform our reader
of a more delicate
interpretation

 

[wildsweetone]

It sounds like Bukowski is overstating the significance of having his poems stolen rather than understating it for humorous effect.

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She lets some random boyfriend have his way
And cuckolds hubby on their wedding day.

i don't think the understatement relates to the stolen poems.

 

[wildsweetone]

carrie champagne - to the knob gobbler without elements of style
let me say that I am no proponent
of rigid punctuation
really
just
have you ever really thought about it
how would we convey
nuance
inflection
intelligent interjection
if in our meagre minds we chose
to simply write on and on
without those
pesky spots and dots and curlicues
that inform our reader
of a more delicate
interpretation

understatement!