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goblin ([info]goblin) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-11-17 18:56:00
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Pomo Wankery (but I repeat myself)
Great Poets is a sweet little LJ community. People post a poem they enjoy and generally, get a couple comments chiming in. This post got about thirty times the normal amount of comments. It seems some poetry lovers are less than thrilled by a sonnet that reads simply, "Nothing in that drawer" for fourteen lines.

Eat shit and die! says one, kicking off a glorious festival of furry-bashing, ageism, and of course, embedded images.

ETA: Looks like several more repetitive poems have been posted here and here, with oddly positive feedback.

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[info]puipui
2006-11-18 02:24 am UTC (link)
Hey, anybody know where I can download a recording of John Cage's 4'33"? I want to post it to some music comms to see what they think of it.

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[info]eljuno
2006-11-18 02:49 am UTC (link)
One of my friends used to upload Covenant's You Can Make Your Own Music to filesharing sites and just laugh when people downloaded it.

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[info]whimsy_chan
2006-11-18 04:35 am UTC (link)
After that we can go over to some film communities and post Andy Warhol's Empire. In 8,754,687 parts.

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(no subject) - [info]grapefruitzzz, 2006-11-18 05:21 am UTC

[info]grapefruitzzz
2006-11-18 05:18 am UTC (link)
I actually have an mp3 of this (so much cleaer in digital! Mmmm!) It comes up now and then on my Winamp randomiser and makes me think that its broken. Then I curse the machine, read the title and Ponder about how My Cursing is Music. Omg.

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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-11-18 07:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]grapefruitzzz, 2006-11-18 11:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-11-18 11:54 pm UTC
You know what I have to say to that?
[info]smo
2006-11-18 02:33 am UTC (link)
Ex ex ex.

Bull it bull it bull it bull it.

Ex ex ex.

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[info]narcissam
2006-11-18 02:35 am UTC (link)
That makes the Computer's Christmas Card look like great art.

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(no subject) - [info]narcissam, 2006-11-18 02:38 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-11-18 02:40 am UTC (link)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this technically qualifies as a sonnet, at least not by the rules I learned. I mean, fourteen lines, yes; and you could argue that one of the allowed rhyme schemes is followed, it's just that all the rhymes happen to be the same. But don't they have to be in iambic pentameter, therefore meaning the lines of this poem are only half the length they should be?

Perhaps I am wrong, however, since nobody there appears to be wanking on this particular esoteric aspect. Instead they're concentrating on the immediately obvious topics. Like furries.

--wonapalei on LJ

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(no subject) - [info]onaga, 2006-11-18 02:43 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 02:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 02:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2006-11-18 02:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]goblin, 2006-11-18 03:15 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 06:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]whimsy_chan, 2006-11-18 04:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]semirecluse, 2006-11-18 04:36 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 06:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-11-18 07:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2006-11-18 09:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-19 01:33 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wickedwitch, 2006-11-19 12:18 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-19 01:34 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-20 03:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]priestesspadfoo, 2006-11-18 07:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mochibuni, 2006-11-18 12:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]provetheworst, 2006-11-18 02:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-19 12:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]jat_sapphire, 2006-11-19 02:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cinnamonical, 2006-11-19 05:53 am UTC

[info]jat_sapphire
2006-11-18 02:44 am UTC (link)
The real question, of course, is whether it's an English or Italian sonnet. That makes ALL the difference when interpreting it, so I'll have to reread and pay more attention to the rhyme scheme this time.

Meanwhile, kevincarter wins so much.

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[info]singe
2006-11-18 02:49 am UTC (link)
Am I the only one who assumes that if I don't like/don't get something, I should maybe put a little work into trying to grasp it, as I may learn something?

Y

es.

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dracothelizard
2006-11-18 02:52 am UTC (link)
And THAT is why I don't like postmodern literature.

That, and it never has as much gore as Gothic lit and medieval lit.

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(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2006-11-18 04:13 am UTC
(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-11-18 03:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2006-11-19 12:26 am UTC
(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-11-19 12:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tunxeh, 2006-11-19 12:59 am UTC
(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-11-19 01:01 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 11:56 pm UTC

[info]caito
2006-11-18 03:25 am UTC (link)
Eat Shit and Die
A poem by Caito

eat shit and die
you "educated person"
incapable of discussion
gourmet chocolate comes out of my bum
stupid teenagers
furries dress better than you


*bows*

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2006-11-18 04:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]goblin, 2006-11-18 06:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 05:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]caito, 2006-11-18 05:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]alpheratz, 2006-11-18 06:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 06:37 am UTC
(no subject) - ealusaid, 2006-11-18 06:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cellardoor28, 2006-11-18 10:46 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 07:33 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 06:32 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-18 06:37 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 07:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-11-20 09:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lindentreeisle, 2006-11-20 04:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 02:50 pm UTC

[info]ichigatsu
2006-11-18 03:28 am UTC (link)
Your wank report's title hits it right on the head. When the post had but 2 comments, I just saw "Postmodern American Poetry" and thought, sweet. Greatpoets will wank for the very first time!

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[info]zealot
2006-11-18 03:53 am UTC (link)
Someone's taking an introductory poetry course.

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[info]daylightsparks
2006-11-18 04:11 am UTC (link)
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorite poems, "Haiku Ambulance" by Richard Brautigan:

A piece of green pepper
fell
off the wooden salad bowl:
so what?

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(no subject) - [info]nekoneko, 2006-11-18 05:13 am UTC

[info]semirecluse
2006-11-18 04:41 am UTC (link)
Oh, postmodern poetry, how utterly you fail.

But hey, what a nifty comm! Robert Creeley, Nikki Giovanni, and Ogden Nash all on the front page? ♥

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[info]emiweebee
2006-11-18 07:48 am UTC (link)
Sigh. Now I am sort of glad I left that comm.

It would be nice if someone over there would criticise the poem using some sort of standard other than "I don't like it!" Say, some sort of academic standard. Then we could have academic wank! My favourite!

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(Anonymous)
2006-11-18 08:20 am UTC (link)
> open right drawer

There is nothing in that drawer.

> look in drawer

There is nothing in that drawer.

> wait

Time passes...

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(no subject) - [info]c, 2006-11-18 01:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]alpheratz, 2006-11-18 03:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 04:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rotten_fish, 2006-11-18 10:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-11-19 07:03 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2006-11-18 10:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tangentialone, 2006-11-19 12:16 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-11-18 09:35 am UTC (link)
I love it. I think that at the end you hear that nothing is in the drawer as composer- and the whole thing seems a convincing of the self- it's so repugnant to external appreciation, that it should only seem interal. By the end the listener should hear the intended purpose of the voice- that the creator has nothing left inside- but the repitition itself seems convincing that there's not.

LOL wut.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 11:41 am UTC

[info]chudley_cannon
2006-11-18 05:15 pm UTC (link)
The violently adverse reactions to the poem are waaaay funnier than the suckiness of the poem itself. These people are upset, yo.

But [info]kevincarter ftw.

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PoMo pisses people off - [info]lottelita, 2006-11-18 08:20 pm UTC
Re: PoMo pisses people off - (Anonymous), 2006-11-19 12:50 am UTC

[info]seeshellirun
2006-11-18 05:25 pm UTC (link)
"For instance, I get this poem; I do not, however, particularly like it."

Anytime someone has to repeatedly say they "get" something, particularly art, my confidence in that statement dwindles.

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[info]alpheratz
2006-11-18 06:56 pm UTC (link)
while reading the red wheelbarrow poem, it finally clicked and i totally understood what he was trying to say.

Man, my high school lit teacher would go batshit over that one. She lowered our grades one full mark whenever we said that a writer was "trying" to do something in an essay. Her logic was something along the lines of "there is no try" and that the writer either makes the point, or doesn't, and we should pick one and stick to it.

That said, I would certainly like to know what the wheelbarrow poem is really about.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-18 07:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lottelita, 2006-11-18 08:22 pm UTC

[info]lottelita
2006-11-18 08:15 pm UTC (link)
Lit major ... nearing ... brain meltdown ...

... must not wank ... about beauty ... of postmodernism ...

*sits on hands*

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[info]rotten_fish
2006-11-18 09:35 pm UTC (link)
::continues great otf_wank tradition::

It's a good poem. I am as frustrated by reading fourteen lines of the same damn phrase as someone would be frustrated by finding nothing or at least not what they wanted in fourteen drawers.

Also, I hate SHAY-mus D's icon. In fact, I am now filled with deep hatred of everything. Damn you, empty drawers.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-11-19 01:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]rotten_fish, 2006-11-19 06:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]emiweebee, 2006-11-19 06:44 am UTC
My reaction can only be expressed through haiku: - [info]puipui, 2006-11-19 10:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2006-11-19 05:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hickorydickory, 2006-11-19 09:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]rotten_fish, 2006-11-19 09:37 pm UTC

verthandi
2006-11-18 09:42 pm UTC (link)
Blech. I don't like that poem at all, but then, I don't like much postmodern literature.

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2006-11-18 11:18 pm UTC (link)
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(no subject) - [info]grapefruitzzz, 2006-11-19 04:42 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]breecita, 2006-11-19 07:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2006-11-19 09:50 am UTC
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