Hmm. I’m not convinced that an oeuvre consisting mainly of recombinations of observed sensory details and labored puns is exactly… Blakean.
But to me, Ron is very closely allied to URIZEN.
rest in light
l isten very attentively to all sounds
i s silent or prolongs sounds
g enerated, notation becomes
h e may prolong a silence
t emporal holes — durations in which readers keep silent
I’ve written a “simple test of a good writer” but it’s too cynical to post even here. If you’re curious, I’ll send it to you.
Found Abecedarian Poem in an Amazon.com Review of The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson
Aardvark, Botulism, Cup Cake, David (Elizabeth), Enzymes, Fat-Tailed Sheep, Gender/Sex and Food, Hallucinogenic Mushrooms, Ice Cream Sundae, Jewish Dietary Laws, Kangaroos, Lobscouse, Microwave Cooking, Norway, Offal, Puffin, Queen of Puddings, Roti, Scurvy, Termite Heap Mushroom (or Taillevant), Umeboshi, Vegetarianism, Washing up (a very elegant little article), sadly no X, Yin-yang, and Zabaglione.
(yay!)
abecedarian spam subject line poem
acronym corralled primitivism
agleam eidetic catalytic augmentation
bonito fbi mile chickadee deallocate
boreas frock salvo believe orthodox
cranium continuity creating ernestine embodiment
crop frowsy
daffy incomputable ramp hormone
deity kangaroo heterodyne rudder advocate
enzymatic bloodline her chemistry evocation jack shall aware augment eigenvector annoy comrade corn chair blackberry hades affair cantonese gauge neoclassic ditty seizure remote brokerage collate osmotic hahn brandenburg mire anyone feat inconstant inconspicuous brooklyn ewing behead auditorium cauchy
extramarital marijuana
fairy dissidents over 72
fat ass dislike by people the most, y? leaderless blink
glossed gravitate gagwriter behold embezzle
gull astronomy blair freshen
hairy Being slight while to be a companion to sweets jules
herd glove fuji glue
incarnate improve anteater criterion
interstitial inasmuch evensong again cupful curl beguile deaden kalmuk asiatic immigrate clive ballard recursion impromptu infirm bidirectional floodlit facto cromwell demodulate downstairs dodd buttonhole lawmen
kombu low epsilon
less paain and more happiness cork
literature peabody awkward dinosaur frothy
moldavia pickerel antedate
more sex now
Nada, need drugs?
nada, Supreme meedication for you!
ocean 8 clodhoppers
orthodox Clinton
primordial emolument expulsion
pupate etymology
quadrant
quakeress headlight drastic confound
Remember when you broke down last time?
rendezvous cyclops bemadden
slither
steam engine dahlias inside 5
this is crazy
tire
Unkownn Acsertess caugh naked
Why?
ZPR, hello!’ someone barked
An Abecedarian of Spam Senders
Academics C. Outlaid
Bacteria J. Saxophone
Concorde G. Embryologists
Coyest K. Knelling
Dahlia Audley
Esmeralda Pacheco
feather@emophilips.com
Gary complementation
Gift Fox
Headmistress L. Crested
Hilario
Israel Craft
Jack Self
Klutzy Q. Blackbird
Lugubrious D. Impalpable
Marquess Q. Acme
Murderously T. Gridirons
Nappies C. Ionics
Ora Gomez
Perspiring J. Approaches
Posturing J. Dickson
Purify O. Mine
Quincy Randle
Sauntering O. Nosedove
Stabling A. Violoncello
Strictest J. Parabolas
Tomcats E. Sappho
Wrongfulness E. Justifies
Yolanda Mayberry
Vanitatus Imperium
Battered gal’s ‘roid rage soothes the million dollar condors
and their lowly worm’s luscious cameltoe which,
like a vornado creampie in monkey sportswear,
emits a “cry of the soul” as radiant as the art of songs,
or the art of thongs, or three-pronged arguments
that wrap into the haunch of dead enthusiasm rapt
in henna, terracotta, and polyurethane like a swizzle stick
in the (e)urethra of the truly bored. So strike up the sarod,
fellas, and wiggle your fngers on the skins, drummer boys.
Like you, I hear it all technically, a mountain of rouge
on a pale imitation, wallowing in the anemic spirit of time.
Call me e-mail — call me anything — but call me.
The process was interrupted by an abrupt allocution:
“I don’t want you to conceal anything.”
Reading about:
color meanings & culture
Has anyone else created for yourself in your e-mail program a special mailbox called “groovy spam”?
Mine has 252 messages at the moment. I would like to spend some time in a writer’s colony crafting these marvels of verbal art into something really special. I actually went to a few websites — Yaddo and McDowell and Saltenstall — to look at their programs.
It doesn’t seem like they’ve had a lot of writers working on spam poems.
How could I convince their boards of directors of the value of doing so?
No matter what I do, banging my head, feeling that it’s all terribly unreal.
I like how some spams are all aphorisms. It’s like they want to send a little wisdom along with their porn teasers. This one came from a spam entitled “Lovely female starts ptoohs”:
Sain bisu
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you’ve got an audience.
Literature is the immortality of speech. A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
I love mankind it’s people I can’t stand.
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
