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Sunday, July 27, 2008

What is poetry?


One of the more interesting aspects of this public submission format is picturing the poet in your mind. Who was it? What did they look like? What were they feeling and thinking while fiddling with your car? Although this is more a declaration than poetry, I picture a young woman who has just left her ultrasound. She is unable to make phone calls fast enough to give her friends and family the news. When you have a baby there are a couple times you want a bullhorn to scream out to the world what you are feeling. This is one of those times. I see her standing behind my jeep looking for the "!!!" magnet. If poetry is "communication in beauty or the evocation of feeling"-- this must surely be the latter.

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Indianapolis weighs in



Although I had hoped my first automotive poem would be profound and revelatory, you have to post what you can get. This was made in the parking garage above my downtown store location right off Monument Circle in Indy. In fairness, the symphony and its patrons park in the same garage so I like to think of it as the abstract of an essay on generational differences in modern America and how the establishment perpetuates the divide. While Joe assures me it is kids making d*ck jokes, I believe he is crass and cynical. Like Ponyboy, I'll stay gold.

Also, I will start carrying a better camera for this project

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