greatpoets: Ron PadgettNothing in That DrawerNothing

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@ 2006-11-17 11:25:00

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Ron Padgett

Nothing in That Drawer

Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.
Nothing in that drawer.

(from Postmodern American Poetry, Paul Hoover, editor, W. W. Norton Company, 1994)

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	jayslippy 2006-11-17 05:37 pm UTC (link)
	Best sonnet ever. I love that poem. (Reply to this)

	flightviolation 2006-11-17 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	um, no. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	miss_education 2006-11-17 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	Why? (Replies frozen)(Parent)(Thread)

	disseta 2006-11-17 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	yeah. I am gonna have to cast my vote for utter nonesense. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	liliths_nymph 2006-11-17 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	me too. i may be missing something, but i fail to see how this is poetry. i just find it stupid. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ravengirl 2006-11-17 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	i'm not being argumentative, just stating an opinion: this is not poetry. it reminds me of a pile of dirt in a modern art museum with a catchy title. ...IMO. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	miss_education 2006-11-17 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose it's the same discussion really -- is the pile of dirt art? Is it not art because skill has not been proven to you? or is it not art because you personally don't see a point in it? [I can see how something is art to one person and not the next. That is how art is - eg, I don't think Thomas Kinkade is an artist] (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	psuedosentence 2006-11-17 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	i don't really understand quite how this is poetry, or how it got published. but it does kind of give me a hope for my own work. heh. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	typicalfemale 2006-11-17 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	It's called "it is all in who you know." (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	equality_72521 2006-11-17 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	Really now, a five year old can do that. I don't care what "deep" meaning lies behind it. On the surface it's crap. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	takhys 2006-11-17 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Makes me feel like I'm looking for my keys. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	typicalfemale 2006-11-17 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not fond of it, but I find it incredibly ironic that what a lot of people are calling a non-poem has generated more comments in the past few moments than many posts have here in months. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psuedosentence 2006-11-17 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	ha, it is kind of ironic (Reply to this) (Parent)

	etelleadit 2006-11-17 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	Me too. It took on it's own meaning for me before I thought about why the author wrote it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sealwhiskers 2006-11-17 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	haha (Reply to this)

	tom_sizemore 2006-11-17 06:26 pm UTC (link)
	At first I didn't like it. Then I noticed that the poem itself is shaped like an open drawer. Now I kind of like it. (Reply to this)

	nosundays 2006-11-17 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	...no. (Reply to this)

	hellotransience 2006-11-17 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	ahhh postmodernism. like all of academia, veering towards the vast abyss of stupid. i love it. it's coming full circle. ha! (Reply to this)

	fflo 2006-11-17 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, it's a poem, fer sure. But it's a one-off, and sort of a theory piece, which---like the labelled pile of dirt in the museum---is hardly everybody's cup o' tea. (Reply to this)

	moireach 2006-11-17 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	Things can be clever without being good. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	contessa_maggie 2006-11-17 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	Amen. It doesn't belong in a community called greatpoets, that's for sure. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	slomosexual 2006-11-17 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	nothing in that poem (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mm511 2006-11-17 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	Ha! Your wit slays me! Cheerio! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

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	mehinda 2006-11-17 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	I actually find it rather inspiring. (Reply to this)

	2much_estrogen 2006-11-17 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	it reminds me of the title menu on the "being john malkovich" dvd that reads, "nothing is here." obviously you click it and it repeats on screen, "nothing is here." (Reply to this)

	Proof of Skill != Art miss_education 2006-11-17 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	Does an artist really have to PROVE thier skills to you for it to be art? If so - you're missing the point entirely. That said, I love this. (Reply to this)

	bravest_unsaid 2006-11-17 08:21 pm UTC (link)
	Help, help, help! Outside my comfort zone! OUTSIDE! ::eyeroll:: (Am I the only one who assumes that if I don't like/don't get something, I should maybe put a little work into trying to grasp it, as I may learn something?) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	johnnymoondogs 2006-11-17 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	nothing in that comment. but seriously, sometimes things just are utter nonsense. compare this poem, published, to the reams of unpublished poems by sylvia plath or someone of that nature. and then laugh because plath on her worst day beats this poem's ass a million times over. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	kevincarter 2006-11-17 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	I would have hated it if it would have ended after the 11th line, but lines 12-14 were so breathtakingly poignant that I couldn't bear it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	fflo 2006-11-17 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	okay, that's funny (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	copy 2006-11-17 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	I think the angry responses here make this poem amazing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kyrafic 2006-11-18 01:27 am UTC (link)
	Heh, people on the internet will get angry about anything. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	nosyparker 2006-11-18 01:26 am UTC (link)
	Huh. Okay. It definitely evokes that crazed/obsessive feeling of looking everywhere for something, but only the first time you read it. The poetry I tend to like is the stuff I can read over and over again. This is more like a one-time use poem. Disposable, like a poetry handi-wipe or something. (Reply to this) (Thread)