La Belle Kara Sans Merci: A BSG Crack-Ballad

[dionusia]

Not content with appalling the ghost of Sappho with my crackpoery, I must now make my apologies to Keats. What happens when you combine Keats' verse with "Unfinished Business"? A ballad about pilots that's become a bit more R rated than the original, that's what. This one is dedicated to my lovely f'list for digging lit geekouts -- I love you

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[grapefruitzzz]

(I am now flicking through an anthology!)

Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to useless nuggets most violent ways
Or hurled the many beers upon the crew,
Had they but courage equal to desire?

What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That impulse made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this
Being blonde and boyish with a stern?

Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Caprica for her to burn?

(I swear this was one of the first ones I saw :D )

[dionusia]

OH MY GOD! The crack-muses hath guided thy hand, my wond'rous friend. This is like a dream come true, I adore it. "With beauty like a tightened bow" -- too perfect for Apollo's twin! "Hurled the many beers upon the crew" -- oh, Yeats would applaud! Hee!

Thy crackpoetry is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee the more I have, for both are infinite.

I have to go tear myself away from this and go teach now, but I hope you continue! Crackpoetry NEEDS YOU!

[grapefruitzzz]

I think he'd have liked her quite a lot ;)

The way thou rework' all the verse in Lee
Is like the music filk that fills the net
But sweeter-blooming (even more than he)
For making use of antique verses yet.

[bop_radar]

*reads and giggles*

You guys are a marriage made in heaven (and I have the best LJ friends ever!).

[dionusia]

Yes, this is all the result of your insta-rec! *hugs you* You sent lovely people my way.

[bop_radar]

It occurs to me that I should also have linked you to this post since the book I discuss in it sounds completely your kind of thing. ;-)

[dionusia]

Oh, grapefruitzzz! If you would write a Yeats/pilots cycle, I would die. He's the perfect Lee-type.

And such a lovely tribute, and here am I, supposedly a crackpoet, and words are failing me. This is embarrasing! Eeee!

Now I'll have to leave English lit and go oldschool on you (I am a classicist after all):

Give me a thousand crackpoems, then a hundred,
then another thousand, then another hundred again...

da mi carmina mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum...

Hmm, what would be Latin for "cracked-out"?

[grapefruitzzz]

Yeats does have a lot of pining to use, although it does remind me that we never see Kara pining for Lee as much as I'd like. Although she does come to him first when she Re-Appears. Unless that's just HeadKara. Bugger.

Heh, coincidentally my first degree (and there are no WORDS for how pretentious it is to say that hahaha) was in Latin and English, although my Latin is awful.

Hm hm hm. "carmina insana visu" looks cute. And next to 'mad' in the dictionary is 'scomber' for mackerel, which is quite a word.

[dionusia]

it does remind me that we never see Kara pining for Lee as much as I'd like.

True...although maybe she writes all these mushy poems in secret, and nobody knows. She is a Khataris-quoter, after all; I feel that she has a poetic soul. (PLUS you could make CrackKara do whatever you'd like. Hehe.) And hey, I'm pretty sure it's really her there in the finale. I mean, I wrote a HeadKara, but even I think she's going to be back in corporeal form! (But fingers crossed.)

Re: Latin crack -- Haha! insana visu is perfect. But scomber, too! That made me go borrow bitterlatinist's OLD and I found scombros metuentia carmnia -- the poems so bad they'd be turned into fish-wrappings. Clever!

I think I may pass out from this lit geekery. Too much joy.

[bop_radar]

Oh, I want to believe Kara writes mushy poems in secret! *hopes* She does have the artistic thing going on... let's just hope her poems aren't all about the mandala of destiny!

[dionusia]

Ha! Now I remember, she did have that poem on her apt. wall about smoking...so maybe all of her poems are like that. Nah. I bet her secret poems are the best, and she never shows them to anyone.

Actually, didn't Katee herself pen the smoking poem? I think so!

[bop_radar]

I think so. *nods* We should bribe Katee to write some emo!Kara poetry. :-)

[dionusia]

SekritEmoKara says "No! No one shall ever read the language of my soul!" But someone will steal her notebook some day and she'll be found out.

AND LOOK WHAT WISTERIA DID!

(!!!)

I've flailed so many times today my arms are tired. But I'm still doin' it!

*flails once more*

[bop_radar]

ICON?! ICON!!!!!! \o/ \o/ *joins the flailing*

[dionusia]

Whew so excited I forgot I probably should have told you she put both of them here!

I actually did a little dance.

It may have been inspired by your GaiusDance icon.

[bop_radar]

Fear not, fair one! I tracked them down...
(oh no! all this poetry is getting to me!)