Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Horizons Expanded

Up until now, we've used this blog primarly to share music.  However, I think this blog can be so, so much more.  So, in the interest of expanding our blogging horizons, today I introduce three different, non-music related items:

1 - A poem
2 - A request
3 - A discussion

The Poem

So, since you listen to Wait..Wait... Don't Tell Me, you are probably already aware of this, but apparently Dimitri Martin is a fan of palindromes.  So much so, he wrote a 244-word palindromic poem.  And frankly it's pretty incredible and I knew you would appreciate it:

"Dammit I'm Mad"

Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I’m a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I’m it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I’d assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
“Sir, I deliver. I’m a dog”
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I’m mad.

The Request

So, the weather in the high rockies is finally starting to warm up.  Consequently, I am starting to break out the warm weather clothes and I am finding that I am lacking.  Most everything I have has holes, stains, or some other dysfunction.  Now, seeing how you so delicately told me that I am "stuck in the ninties" I thought I should hold off on buying new summer clothes until I can safely travel through time to the present.  So, I would like to ask you to please tell me what warm weather clothes I can and should wear in this bold new future of ours.

The Discussion

I've had this discussion with a couple people and I would like to get your thoughts on it:

Hipsters - Love them? Hate them? Ambivelence? Indifference?