Awful, simply awful. Responding to our criticism of her constant use of one-word lines, the CalPig goes overboard, with big, awkward, ugly wads of unrelated words:
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-31-10 01:34 AM
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The poem I didn't read tonight at the open mic...
Since I didn't go...I hurt my wrist last night and have felt weird all day...Yeah, I went to the doctor and am better now...
I'll read this next week...
Moonrise
Watched the moon come up tonight, high in the eastern sky she looked as though someone were painting her
as though the sky were
canvas
I walked and felt moonrise all round me
who is the artist and where does he work but in my mind and yours
do we see it together or does the canvas separate us from that great reality of
moonrise
soon she will be
full...
© 2010 MLC
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9314432As always, you may recite this CalPig poem for the enjoyment of friends and family, as I plan to do, but you may not accept their offers of payment.
I believe DUmmy Steerpike may be a budding poet in the CalPiggian style:
Steerpike (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-31-10 07:28 AM
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1. Good Morning Peg
Nice job! The mind wraps around the poem like a snake on a hot summer day squeezing my heart softly hissing like a flat tire in a hot southern wind.
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-31-10 11:45 AM
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2. My dear Steerpike...
Thank you for rescuing me from complete ignominy!
And your sentence is a poem in its own right...
Yep, she likes it.
CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Wed Mar-31-10 11:58 AM
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4. You are too kind...
I'm trying out a new way of writing, and I'm not very polished at it yet...
It would be interesting to know what "new way" she's talking about. It seems as awful as always.
I'm tempted to borrow use of the term "wordburger", but this "poem", embarrassingly bad as it is, falls far short of the worst she can do.