Wednesday, February 01, 2006

The reason I like this poem

The reason I like the following poem is that it strikes me as the kind of thing that a person at the kind of dinner-party I wish I were invited to (but never will/should be) might say that would initially amuse and delight me on an objective level, but subsequently on a subjective level tempt me to revile and slander the person who said it because "they are the real murderer:"

The reason I like
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Is that her name.
Sounds like a basketball
Falling downstairs.

The reason I like
Walt Whitman
Is that his name
Sounds like
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Falling Downstairs.


("The reason I like" by David Mamet)

Hey, why is all the heat on me now? You know i didn't do it, Columbo... Throw me a friggin bone here... You think just because you put on a white tux you're one of THEM?

Tell them it was Mamet! Tell them it was Mamet!

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:12 PM

    Shit poem but good Buckley bits around it. 5/10

    Yeah, I had a sandwich with Buckley bits once. It was ... chewy.

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  2. Anonymous5:22 AM

    Yeah great, hurry the fuck up and post something else to the website. I'm getting tired of hell of having to jack off to that picture of Hank Jones.

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