Something about something [rubai riffing]
When Rilke wrote his thing poems
he used the word advisedly
there's something in the way she moves
now muzaks high society
is something wrong with this picture?
could be a thing to ponder --
when drunk on objectless awareness
something brings sobriety
Where something wicked this way comes
is something less than sure?
there's something about Mary
or there's something in the fleur
when don't just sit there / do something!
meets teeter-totter time
the Something Generation band
enjoys its Something Tour
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In Ron Silliman's critique yesterday of the popular novel [and soon-to-be a-major-motion-picture] The Da Vinci Code, he notes the ubiquity of the word "something" in the author's prose. This point is mused on by Indetermenacy in a Comment to Ron's post. The above verses riff on these things.
he used the word advisedly
there's something in the way she moves
now muzaks high society
is something wrong with this picture?
could be a thing to ponder --
when drunk on objectless awareness
something brings sobriety
Where something wicked this way comes
is something less than sure?
there's something about Mary
or there's something in the fleur
when don't just sit there / do something!
meets teeter-totter time
the Something Generation band
enjoys its Something Tour
----------
In Ron Silliman's critique yesterday of the popular novel [and soon-to-be a-major-motion-picture] The Da Vinci Code, he notes the ubiquity of the word "something" in the author's prose. This point is mused on by Indetermenacy in a Comment to Ron's post. The above verses riff on these things.
posted by david raphael israel at 5:40 PM
3 Comments:
Though I come here, I thought this time, I will leave my mark here! I like this rubai!
You are so good as alway!
Gautami
I'm grateful that you did Tami, thanks.
As you might have noticed, I've worn myself thin (or perhaps threadbare) explaining and defending my evidently incomprehsnsible obstinacy vis-a-vis the absolutely horrid use of italics (of all things) in this otherwise anyway dubious excuse for a poem. ;-)
Perhaps in future I will say nothing about nothing.
cheers,
d.i.
Interesting website with a lot of resources and detailed explanations.
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