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  1. 03-27-2015, 11:49 PM #1
    PClem
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    Laurie's Junk Drawer



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    1.Metaphor
    2. Interpretation of Recurring Dreams
    3. When the St.Paul NewsPress Ran the Lorena Bobbitt Story
    4. How Much Can You Carry?
    5. My Daughter's Fridge is a Science Experiment
    6. No One Speaks of Steve
    7. Mother to Vegetarian Daughter
    8. Sometimes I Think I'm Having a Different Conversation Than Everyone Else
    9. Why We Love Vampires
    10. The Girl And The Dog Named Holstein
    11. The Border Collie's Lament: An Anti-Cat Poem
    12. Stillwater, Oklahoma: Oil and Gas Industry's Targeted City of Concern
    13. The Birds Don't Care
    14. When Stillwater, Oklahoma Went Absolute Zero
    15. Untitled
    16. Creed of the Malcontent
    17. Rings
    18. How to Learn From Failure
    19. Preparing to Visit an Aunt and Uncle in Arkansas
    20. Two-Line Horror Story
    21 - 26
    27. Comparison
    28. Untitled II
    29. Existence
    30. Ending
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  2. 03-28-2015, 12:23 AM #2
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    Organize your doodad's!
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  3. 03-28-2015, 12:46 AM #3
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    Junk Drawer has always been my back-up thread title.

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    Because, if the poet isn’t careful, meaning has a way of too insistently shouldering its way in, so that we readers then have the meaning but miss the experience.
    Christopher Ricks, Introduction to Austin Clarke’s Collected Poems
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  4. 03-28-2015, 04:03 AM #4
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    What's in that drawer could be made into this...as it happens.

    http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...l_1501471i.jpg
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  6. 03-28-2015, 07:17 PM #6
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    Happy NaPoMo!
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  7. 03-31-2015, 08:36 PM #7
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    There's a precedence for poems in a drawer...

    Glad yuo are not not doing it, again!!
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  8. 03-31-2015, 10:24 PM #8
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    Thank you all for a warm welcome. I think I'm doing this again, or as Sorella says, not not doing it, but who knows what might happen between now and tomorrow? Annie - no option for back-up title. Junk is the operative word and I'm not budging from it!

    Hare and Rik - you know what I like!

    Angela - why on earth would I organize junk? Then it might be useful.

    Rachel - Danger is my middle name. Boom!

    Janet - no baskets. Just more drawers.

    Sorella - not quite on the same level as Emily. Hoping I can get to the level of what Rik and Hare created for me.

    Bill - that's pretty much the way the junk drawer looks, all right.
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  9. 03-31-2015, 10:30 PM #9
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    Emiliooooo! You're in?
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  11. 03-31-2015, 10:35 PM #11
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    I think I'm going to try. I'm moving this month, starting Friday, and need to be finished by the 17th. And my disclaimer is, I give no warranties to the quality of what I post! I've missed you, this will be fun!
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  12. 04-07-2015, 11:06 PM #12
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    Laurie,

    Interpretation of dreams is horrifying with the need to pee and the caged animals! The first strophe is actually kinda amusing. I am picturing the hip(pie) dad. I can see his earrings winking goodbye in the rear view. The last lines chastise me for grinning in the first place. Nicely done.

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  13. 04-08-2015, 09:43 PM #13
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    heya Laurie! back for more goodness.
    My Daughter's Fridge is a Science Experiment - this made me lmao because I've done exactly that, left food in the fridge so long it finally just ate itself and disappeared. embarrassing, but true. and you got the decay sequence just about right, too.
    No One Speaks of Steve - this is so powerful, and touching and tragic and painful. exp that final strophe that paints enduring grief so well. well done. kudos for the way you wrote this!
    Mother to Vegetarian Daughter - this made me chuckle. mom's know just how to push their children's buttons and put them in their place when needed. sweet!
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  14. 04-08-2015, 10:12 PM #14
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    Hey Laurie. Nice poeming. The recurring dreams, Lorena Bobbitt and ’No One Speaks of Steve’ stand out for me on first reading, but there’s all kinds of really good stuff here.
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  15. 04-13-2015, 02:59 AM #15
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    Some really good work here. "Metaphor" is very well done and delightful. "Mother to Vegetarian Daughter" is nicely ironic. "Stillwater, Ok." and "The Birds don't Care" are both particularly effective, I think. I'll try to get back for more later in the month.
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