Humor on Notes
Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)
Trees of Socrates
Untie the current
tongue of Socrates
to see why we covet the trees
to their bleak destinies
of forests absent
absent/present
unloose/unleash/untie
Deftnitions
Dogmatic: The ability to “walk the dog” in an automatic fashion.
Why the World Craves Endlessly
Poop and puke…
Poop and puke…
Dupe and nuke…
Dupe and nuke…:
No wonder
the world is
so messed up!
About this poem
Everything's a poem when inflection and performance get hold of it! I can perform a recipe and you will not know it "as a recipe." You will know it as a poem and not care too much about the words. Later, upon reflecting, you will say to yourself, did he just read me the recipe for a friend chicken vegan meal preparation? So it is that while reading even scholarly works, or the works of ancient writers like Ovid, "Homer'-Group, Heraclitus, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, and so forth, the notes I take become poems, stories, skits, and the like, along with philosophical treatments of specific phraseologies. ... more »
Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by ScottMPotter on April 24, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | abaaab bx ax xCCCCxxx |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 69 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 2, 8 |
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