Popularity
This is a poem about popularity.
You are reading the poem right now.
I have never been popular.
I am not now popular.
Nor will I be.
If you have read this far,
You are still reading the poem.
I never strive to be popular.
But I desire acceptance.
The poem goes on to say,
I am a child.
Still.
And I lie like a child.
Like one who forgets
that they once
made fake vomit
by dumping
old salads
in gleaming
white
toilet
bowls.
Waiting to be discovered.
You are still reading the poem.
You are reading the poem right now.
I have never been popular.
I am not now popular.
Nor will I be.
If you have read this far,
You are still reading the poem.
I never strive to be popular.
But I desire acceptance.
The poem goes on to say,
I am a child.
Still.
And I lie like a child.
Like one who forgets
that they once
made fake vomit
by dumping
old salads
in gleaming
white
toilet
bowls.
Waiting to be discovered.
You are still reading the poem.
posted by Eugene at 12:25 PM
6 Comments:
I'm not reading the poem any more, Eugene.
You mention the fake barf, but I still don't know about the towelrack.
Waaah wuh waaaaahhwaah wawa hah huh *snf* WAAAAAAAAAAAHH! BUHOOOO HOO OOHOOOOO!! Wawaaah!! boo hoo hhooo! hoo! hoo! waaaaah! WAAAH! *sniffffff* Huh huh uhhhh waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! WAAAAAHHH! huh huh BOO HOO WAAAAAHHH hunf *snf snf* boo hoo hoo booo WAAAAAHHH!! wawa hhahaaaa! POETRY buh buh huhu huh WAAA! WAAHHH!! boo hoo uhu uhuh huh hhhhh WAAAHH!! boo hoo! boo hoo hoo hoo boo WAAHHH hooo WAHHHH!!!! Boo hoo hoo *sniff* *sniff* boo *sniff* hoo *sniff sniff sniff* uh hah hah WAAAAHHHH!!!
The dialogue that the author conjures with the reader is interesting, it reminds me of the beginning of "If on a Winter Night a Traveller" by Italo Calvino.
If you have read this far,\You are still reading the poem.\I never strive to be popular.\But I desire acceptance.
This part hints at a profound idea in very simple ways, thats what I like in your style, economy of words.
I tried to write something on my experience in Snow Town, hope you may like. I would like to write more.
thanks for your interest.
What's up with "Balls in flight"?
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The humor! I love the humor- because we could look back on our rejections as failures. It makes me happy to see that we can embrace all that we weren't and still aren't and accept that. Ha, ha.
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