Sorry for the poetry dump. But I've decided I actually kind of like this cento I had to come up with for poetry class. A cento is a poem of stolen words/phrases - the point is essentially to make a poem from words that are not your own. I decided to use song lyrics, and limited myself to three bands (for those who did not see my snarky remark on ( Read more... )

I've fallen in love with a poet who breaks the rules into pieces as he follows them. Maybe not in love but oh... I'm fascinated.

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Ode to Good Men Fallen Before Hero Come
by Peter Meinke

In all story      before hero come
good men from all over set forth
to meet giant ogre dragon troll
and they are all killed every one
decapitated roasted cut in two
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( Ramblings about careers and classes and where the hell do I go from here. I just need to vent, don't worry about reading it. )

5 music recs, or what I'm listening to :)

"The Reckoner" by Radiohead (Listen on YouTube)
I've been listening to In Rainbows all afternoon. One of the only albums I have of any
band that I can say I like every song. "Reckoner" is a great summary of everything I
like about the album - the selective percussion, Thom's haunting voice, a bit more
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"There are some men for whom a tree has no reality until they think
of cutting it down, for whom an animal has no value until it enters 
the slaughterhouse, men who never look at anything until they 
decided to abuse it and who never even notice what they do not
want to destroy. These men can hardly know the silence of love:
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