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beetiger ([personal profile] beetiger) wrote2003-08-28 09:57 am

Exquisite Corpse poem, arranged

humanity i love you
when the world is puddle-wonderful
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Coming from your country, fill me with care. That scent,
From air to air, lavish, at Autumn's coronation
A starry wimple on thy head, a marmot in your hand
And all that's best of dark and bright.
and in my wild heart what did I most wish to happen to me
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Sometimes find some VIOLET FUNGI

One time in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria...
Said the calico cat as he licked his chops,
"The children from her arm they gonne arace."
Would that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that face.
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
As if the choice were mine to make
And not one will know of the war...
And, Little Sin, pray God to die,
The moth survives you, and are ye more just?

Is late better than never?
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
Do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?
Chuck Melville's bellybutton.

Thank you to the contributors (in order of lines):
[livejournal.com profile] paka, [livejournal.com profile] claudia_, [livejournal.com profile] rowyn, [livejournal.com profile] genesis_w, [livejournal.com profile] redbird, [livejournal.com profile] sythyry, [livejournal.com profile] perlandria, [livejournal.com profile] kibbles, [livejournal.com profile] mister_wolf, [livejournal.com profile] chipuni, [livejournal.com profile] browngirl, [livejournal.com profile] ahuriko, [livejournal.com profile] paganmommy, [livejournal.com profile] kraayn, [livejournal.com profile] red_queen, [livejournal.com profile] aprivatefox, [livejournal.com profile] secanth, [livejournal.com profile] daveqat, [livejournal.com profile] rainstorm13, [livejournal.com profile] ottomaton, [livejournal.com profile] melskunk, [livejournal.com profile] errorist, [livejournal.com profile] xydexx.

[identity profile] aprivatefox.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. I think reports of the failure of that poetic experiment were greatly exaggerated. Thank you!

[identity profile] bikerwalla.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
I am so damn uncreative, but when you want poetic song lyrics, Tull isn't a bad band to steal from.

[identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
I am confuzzled?
My line isn't there.
Still, it is a beautiful poem.

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Eep! It was in the ordered list, but somehow the text fell out of the poem when I did my cut and paste! It's back now. Enjoy, and thank you.

[identity profile] kibbles.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 10:04 am (UTC)(link)
One of the more beautiful ones, yes.

[identity profile] ahiruko.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
That turned out great!

[identity profile] beetiger.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not in the classic Exquisite Corpse style -- I took the lines I recieved as raw materials and rearranged them to best effect, rather than just offering them back chronologically -- but I'm pleased with the result.

[identity profile] daveqat.livejournal.com 2003-08-28 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow.... That turned out wonderfully! *smile*