As all three or four of my readers know, I don't do a very good job of updating this blog. The truth is, I usually don't have much on my mind that I deem worth sharing.
Still, there are a few things I've come across recently that I would like to share with you. The first is a link to a new Robert Bly ghazal from the latest issue of Poetry. I like this one a lot.
The second thing is another link, this time to the YouTube page for a musical duo named Pomplamoose. I enjoy them quite a bit. (My last musical discovery was The Swell Season. I wonder why I favor these duos. Hmmm . . . .) They make cool little videos for their songs. "If You Think You Need Some Lovin'" and "Always in the Season" are my favorites. I suggest watching/listening to them right now.
And the final thing (last and, in this case, definitely least) is a parody poem I found recently on my hard drive, in a file full of stuff I'd transferred from my old computer. It's not attributed, but I think I actually wrote this myself, even though I have no memory of writing it. It looks like the sort of shit I'd come up with. (If you recognize this from somewhere else, though, let me know!) Enjoy.
JORIE GRAHAM GUEST STARS ON SESAME STREET
C is for Cookie,
and [but] [there is more] [to say]
that's good [true][what is good?]
enough
for me. [hand on cookie] [absence]
[of cookie]
Cookie,
[inevitable]
Cookie,
[terrible][in its inevitability] [yes]
Cookie
starts with ________.
