'Orange Peel' written by Mister Murder Ballad

[sixgunsaint]

For the poetry night, I am trying to become Mr. Murder Ballad, and read at least one of these types of pieces each time. The last time I did it, with a piece called 'The Ballad of Bloody McLee', the audience really got into it - mostly cuz I sang it with an appalachian accent and stomped my foot to an imaginary beat. Kids love the theatrics. Here's

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Re: ...everybody look what's goin' down...

[sixgunsaint]

You're right about free-verse being challenging, as the amount of crappy poetry out there can attest to. Then again, I have become this huge poem elitist for some strange reason, it just snuck up on me. I think it's just this weird urge in me to do whatever's not popular, do always contradict the beloved. I'm quite the prick in that sense. Almost every poet who does the open mic goes up there and reads some rap about how life sucks, how Bush should die, how the poorer get poorer while the rich get richer... it's all very stirring but becomes tedious after the hundredth time. If they didnt do that stuff, heck, I'd probably do it, LOL. Now I just go up there and tell dark campfire stories :D

As far as The Lepidopterist, I thought it was excellent. And I'm not lying, if I didn't like it I would have just ignored you and blocked you off my lj list ;) heh heh. I really did like it though, especially that its main subject is something so out of left-field. I'm not at all familiar with a butterfly scholar, and I find that such an intriguing idea for a poem. What made you choose it? I thought the comparison of sex to butterfly collecting (pining insects to cardboard, how sick ;) was amazing. Really cool poem. What did you mean by Stage 1?

Thanks for sharing it with me, we should bounce stuff back and forth.

[mllemoonbeams]

Thanks. Thanks very much, actually. You're the first person outside of my workshopping classes that I've showed anything to in a long time (wow, lots of prepositional phrases), and it makes me feel a little better to know that someone who is not at all familiar with my style likes it.

Now I just go up there and tell dark campfire stories :D

Heh. That's too charming. :D

It's Stage One because I plan on making a series of poems on the subject (I would assume the speaker would be the butterfly's voice in each of them).

In all honesty, I'm not sure why I chose the butterfly. I was watching the Teardrop Explodes/Julian Cope video collection, and I started thinking of bits and phrases of this poem...but I don't know why a butterfly. I guess the sexual words "pinned" and "mounted" were enough of an allusion for me to make that metaphor?

Thanks, Ben, I appreciate the encouragement. When we get the time and courage (and by "we" I mean "I"), we definitely should exchange works. :)