"Blue Garden" - Dean Young

Sep 26, 2007 16:22

"Blue Garden"
by Dean Young

A dog tied to a parking meter
should never give up theorizing
the curve in the continuum where space
becomes time and time becomes a big
bowl of grub. A poem should be able
to say that in one word but maybe that word
is zypxtflo.
A poem should be a window
and breaking the window behind which
the mannequins are made of springs,
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iatrogenicmyth September 26 2007, 23:29:27 UTC
If I hadn't looked up his biography, I'd seriously think he was schizophrenic. The flight of ideas and loosening of associations sound just like someone with schizophrenia who has gone off their meds. I like it, though, strangely enough.

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tears_of_nienna September 27 2007, 02:37:48 UTC
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

This line has caused me to dig my quotes book out of the back of my closet. Excellent.

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brassdaughter September 27 2007, 04:30:52 UTC
That line is my favorite, as well. Better than possibly everything.

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gh0stmeat September 27 2007, 11:23:16 UTC
i read it out loud, once, & then twice. it's a small joy. :D

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mehinda September 27 2007, 20:30:13 UTC
Please put at least a portion of this behind an LJ cut

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aimlesswanderer September 27 2007, 20:33:01 UTC
With pleasure.

./w

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mehinda September 27 2007, 20:38:40 UTC
thanks! Sorry for the delay too -- been on vacation & not tagging :)

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