Trigintiphobia

[SP Singer]

Hey again,

My fav of your last 3 is Your Person....i love absolutely ANY verbal statement or other emanation that gives me a PHEW feel--i always could use another let-down from another hook!! So Thank YOU!
I love the blasting storm moment in the don't have food poem....sorry busted title, need more sleep. Reminds of when 10 things equal 75 or zero depending on how i tilt my head. Many of the images were perfect snaps but favs were the man without eyebrows and the last line's "...deboned shaking out a match." deboned is perfect.
In the Interviewer's questions poem i started cracking up midway.
2/3rds there tomorrow!
SP

[SP Singer]

Oh, and is Your Person also your cat poem?

[romac1]

Hi Scraps, I enjoyed the intrigue in these poems. Your Person conjures up the "Magnificent Animal" with its emphatic higher case and the luck needed to discover someone with that level of understanding. The 'List of questions asked of the interviewer' stands to reason if Ashbery is the interviewee. I watched a few minutes of the interview and felt entertained, so I'll come back at some point. 'What you're suffering from' was my favourite of these, as it creates a feeling of dissonance and un-ease in its imagery and in what can't quite be brought to mind or pinned down. And 'ancestry' also seems to contain a lot of pent-up anxiety.

[Scrow]

Hi,


The Ashbery interview sounds fascinating, and portrays the poet as someone who is quite happy to bounce back questions that don’t fit their pattern.


I love the idea of a Magnificent Animal who can read ghostly emanations. There’s a lot of subtle ambiguity in the poem, I think - like a fortune-teller who is actually a cat reading the fortune of a ghost who doesn’t realise they’re a ghost yet.


Sarah

[scraps]

Hi SP, romac1 and Sarah - thanks very much for take the time to stop by and comment! Here come four 'poems' to catch up - two six-word stories and two others.

[scraps]

Six word story #1

The skinny flame ate the neighbourhood

[scraps]

Six word story #2

The flight attendant became a pilot

[scraps]

self-love
in the porta-shitter
gas mask drill complete

[scraps]

Who will be the last person

to lick their fingers

and separate two pieces of paper?

[SP Singer]

Glad you're back!

Fav of last bunch is the last--very, very nice magic trick! We can't stop referencing connection(s), you made one effortlessly, delicately, firmly. Wow.

The skinny flame--a goblin of a story made to sound as if it couldn't scare a child....in my mind it was an exceedingly tall, skinny flame in light of the size of the neighborhood.

Self-Love, moves fast in the current current of laughter. Thanks always for the laughs!

I can't tell if i'm happy or not NaPo is coming to a close...how did you feel after your first if you recall?

[Donner]

Hi, Steve,

Being an American Sentence fan, I like your Six Word Stories, especially #2. In six words, you leave open a lot of possibilities for the reader. Did the flight attendant enjoy flying so much that s/he wanted to take it to the next level and take lessons? Did something happen to the pilot that s/he had to take over?

"self-love" - And you wonder why I avoid porta-potties? Again, there are other possibilities beyond the obvious, but I don't think so? : )

"Who will be the last person" - A reference to Covid and cleanliness, perhaps? Or the end of the world? What if there are two people on opposite sides of the world doing the exact same thing at the exact same time when the bomb goes off in both places? Questions, questions, questions. A very intriguing thought.

Donna

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

You have been having fun with short pieces as have some others that I recently commented on.

Thought-provoking little pieces - a pilot, indeed! the porta shitter! and licking your fingers (something I avoid, if possible).

Keep writing.

BrianIs AtYou

[scraps]

Thanks SP, Donna and Brian!

SP: Do you mean like the feeling you get when you are close to the end of a book you don't want to end but you desperately want to know how it ends? This is my third NaPo - the first I flamed out after about six days and I finished my second attempt last year. I remember being super excited and proud of myself for finishing last year - then there was a weird post-NaPo feeling of 'where did everyone go' and 'now what' - still not sure I figured that out - lol -

Donna: Thanks for your comments! Or what if the world just runs out of paper?

Brian: Thanks for stopping by! Yes, definitely short ones and a little bit of checking the box - appreciate your encouragement!

Steve

[scraps]

Non-College Educated White


We,

of wasted privilege

We,

of no ambition

We,

of the hourly wage

We,

of your college educated wars

We,

remember

[Janelo]

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Yes.

All of the Yes.

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