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Oct. 8th, 2008 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
raxApparently like everyone else is writing poems about cephalopods today. So...
A poem about cephalopods? A friend
once had a cuttlefish. Its eyes were strange.
Yoshimi, that was it. It died. The end!
Before that though, it swam and ate. Its range
included many tanks: it knew to squirm
through plastic, made from oil, made from the dead.
Yoshimi just ate fish, I guess, and worms,
no squid-ink pasta, calamari, red
from pulped-up beetle wings, &c. So
I shouldn't criticize. If it were me
entombed in plastic glass, I'd want to go
to other tombs, and eat what seemed like free
buffet. Instead, interred in tree-corpse planks
I drift from death to death in larger tanks.
....it's a draft, anyway. I haven't been writing enough. I don't know why I always choose to work on sonnets when I am chafing against traditional structure. "Oh, look, I want a conversational tone! Maybe I'll write in iambic pentameter with a strict rhyme scheme. Yeah, that will work! Free verse would be much too formal for this." Yeah, good logic there, Rachel. I think it's bedtime for me.
A poem about cephalopods? A friend
once had a cuttlefish. Its eyes were strange.
Yoshimi, that was it. It died. The end!
Before that though, it swam and ate. Its range
included many tanks: it knew to squirm
through plastic, made from oil, made from the dead.
Yoshimi just ate fish, I guess, and worms,
no squid-ink pasta, calamari, red
from pulped-up beetle wings, &c. So
I shouldn't criticize. If it were me
entombed in plastic glass, I'd want to go
to other tombs, and eat what seemed like free
buffet. Instead, interred in tree-corpse planks
I drift from death to death in larger tanks.
....it's a draft, anyway. I haven't been writing enough. I don't know why I always choose to work on sonnets when I am chafing against traditional structure. "Oh, look, I want a conversational tone! Maybe I'll write in iambic pentameter with a strict rhyme scheme. Yeah, that will work! Free verse would be much too formal for this." Yeah, good logic there, Rachel. I think it's bedtime for me.