I remember chatting with a good friend about humor in poetry once (whereupon I realized that a good percentage of my poems are about poop); She told me that my poems are either really sad or really funny in a meaningful kind of way. I have come to the conclusion that I want my writing to be more comically meaningful, humor with a insightful transformation, sort of like Houdini doing stand-up, no? Gosh, that would be horrible.. "And for my last act, witness the wonder, the spectacle of the Disappearing Punchline!!!"
Ahem. Sorry.
I wrote this poem a few months back, randomly at Starbucks. I want my poems to be more along these lines;
Motherload
Hugging your mother is necessary
like landing your buttcheeks
on the cold toilet seat.
It’s necessary,
even the prelanding moment
hovering above the white-iced surface,
how the mother planet pulls
how one yearns to dock and unload.
like landing your buttcheeks
on the cold toilet seat.
It’s necessary,
even the prelanding moment
hovering above the white-iced surface,
how the mother planet pulls
how one yearns to dock and unload.
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So yeah, it's goofy, but it has meaning, no? I guess I'm trying to say that meaningful humor in poetry is a gem. Check out the poems of Billy Collins, that man is such a beautiful comic poet.
4:07 AM-- June 4th, 2010
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