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Plundering the Archives #6

2014/04/12 — Leave a comment

The last of the four live performances I did in 1996–97. By the end of this piece (the second of two pieces performed on 31 May 1997), one of the four paying audience members had fallen asleep on a sofa that served as some of the seating in the Anomalous Records performance space. Eric (Mr. Anomalous Records himself) asked me if I’d been listening to Nux Vomica. To this day, I’m not sure if he was being complimentary or dismissive (or both)…

(12 April 2014)

Spam comment poem #1

2014/04/12 — Leave a comment

Since we’re in the midst of National Poetry Writing Month, I thought an interesting exercise would be to incorporate some of the spam comments that my account attracts into a poem. Apart from fixing some of the intentional typos (e.g., thijnk), and introducing the extra line breaks to make them more ‘poem-like’, I’ve used the text as is: Continue reading

National Poetry Writing Month: Day #11 (April 11, 2014)

2014/04/11 — 1 Comment

Today’s prompt involved writing ‘about wine-and-love [sic]’. Wine and I don’t get along so well these days, so I decided to go with #11 on the LitBridge list:

Take an image that you can recall from the prior week. Use this image to help you write a poem.

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National Poetry Writing Month: Day #10 (April 10, 2014)

2014/04/10 — Leave a comment

Today’s prompt is #50 on LitBridge’s Creative Writing Prompts for Poetry:

Look at the last 10 poems you have written. Pay attention to the ending lines. Use one of those ending lines to begin a new poem.

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