Bad poetry! Oh noetryThe Red
Bad poetry! Oh noetry
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Did I write that? No, William Carlos Williams did. If I could write something that precise and beautiful I would be famous. Also I would have to change my name to Johnny Eduardo Johnson or something similar. I'm just in a literary mood at the moment so I thought I would share my number two all time favorite poem. Number one is a little something called The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Incidentally, it's the only poem by Elliot that I do like. I find him to be a bit... I hate to use the word pretentious, but he definitely demands too much from his readers. So what if I’m not fluent in seven languages, that shouldn’t mean I can’t enjoy poetry. Suck it Eliot, suck it long and hard for all your obscure and all too frequent allusions. Three other great poets, all of whom happened to write in the 20th century, in no particular order:
Bob Dylan
Robert Frost
Donald Anderson
If you can’t tell, I’m in a literary mood tonight. I guess red wine and stack of anthologies will do that to a person. Check out the new pictures on the right and a couple new links on the left. I’m working on some new cartoons, hopefully they’ll be up at the end of the week.