SHAY-mus D ([info]seamusd) wrote in [info]greatpoets,
@ 2006-11-25 16:12:00
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James Tate

Lewis and Clark Overheard in Conversation

then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs
then we'll get us some wine and spare ribs

(from Selected Poems, Wesleyan University Press, 1991)


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[info]flightviolation
2006-11-25 10:30 pm UTC (link)
brilliant

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[info]annainthebox
2006-11-26 12:18 am UTC (link)
you can have your wine and ribs, but I should warn you-- they're not in that drawer.

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[info]blossomslut
2006-11-26 12:51 am UTC (link)
ha.

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[info]cp
2006-11-26 01:00 am UTC (link)
Well-played! :)

Personally I'm not at all convinced these "poems" belong in a community called greatpoets, but I'll just chalk it up to the pure subjectivity of it all. Different strokes make the cookie crumble, or something to that effect.

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[info]2much_estrogen
2006-11-26 01:22 am UTC (link)
great poets. not necessarily great poems.

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[info]mindfulness
2006-11-26 04:25 am UTC (link)
I see this community as a general education about poetry; what I see as good and bad poetry.

I think this poem is simplistic, nobrainer trash, and a one trick gig, but hey, I'm not saying I'm ruler-of-the-universe right.

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[info]johnnymoondogs
2006-11-26 06:45 am UTC (link)
well put

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[info]3butterflies
2006-11-26 03:58 am UTC (link)
Lovely.

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[info]rachiecakies
2006-11-26 04:09 am UTC (link)
HAHA... i was waiting for a comment like this.

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[info]evilstorm
2006-11-26 07:05 am UTC (link)
Most excellent.

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[info]break_the_stars
2006-11-26 03:46 pm UTC (link)
hahahaha oh you deserve applause for that.

*applause*.

i think it was this same user as well who posted the other similar poem...

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[info]elizadarcy
2006-11-26 09:40 am UTC (link)
If he earned [earns?] his living this way, then there sure is surplus money in the world.

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[info]seamusd
2006-11-27 03:24 am UTC (link)
No, this is not a great poem, or even a very funny joke. But it does come from a book that won the Pulitizer Prize for poetry in 1992. Tate certainly qualifies as a "great" poet, whatever that means.

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[info]wonderoutloud
2006-11-27 08:10 am UTC (link)
I rather like it, anyway.

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