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Highly underrated - Vogon Poetry  - liberating, enervating, befuzzling:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8JJH7ZL_Fk

There are two sounds in the world which don't have to mean anything -- music, and laughter.  Immanuel Kant

Richard Burton reciting 'The Greatest Poem in the English Language'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDNCEp8Utjo

 

What a charming and engaging list poem. I love the inclusions- clementines and Mad magazine. And of course the neighbors' family underwear collection. :D Small matter - I hung up for a moment S.2 L.2 - it feels like 'overhead' needs to come later in the phrase.  Just a thought. Love the poem, Tim. &...

I thought that was the case - thus my cavalier comment.
I look forward to your getting the way you want.

T

Hi Tim!   

Full disclosure- lifetime in Minnesota, now I am eagerly retired to the splendor of Colorado.

So good to see you here.

Any questions, ask Sharon.

T

Good sentiment, could use some more line endings.

T

Your Narrator paints with a broad brush in this introspective. Personal, and yet very relate-able ruminations. Everything seems to work except the opening line- great line, but the poem strikes me as about something different.  If the first line were to disappear, the consider cutting the last two w...

I read Michener's Hawaii and that was something.  A burble a mile beneath the surface of the Pacific, and 80 pages later, an island.  The man knows how to research, and how to pack every protozoan tidbit of research into his novels.  But I only read it once.  :) I like the poem more than the ending....

Excellent poeming - no nits from me.