The following started as a kind of "free" homolinguistic translation of Adam Kirsch's "Now that no one looking" (please, Adam folks, forgive any copyright infringement! Nothing but respect is meant by this!) Basically, I responded to each line in Kirsch's poem. However, after several drafts it became a complete monster the likes of which I'll never understand:
City piss sky eye still
tie-dye Daguerre night
Cat prowl now car
Babylonia belly undone
Gazer extra large
foraged stars
Read space: electric
shock timber glyphs
God sphere
science sombrero
Fattest tuxedo
glare-blue jelly eyes
Frozen Greenland fish poke
bright coverall children
Friday, September 12, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Sarah Palin's GOP convention speech, interpolated with "Henry V"
The idea here comes from a former creative writing professor of mine, Cal Bedient (UCLA). I randomly selected words from Palin's GOP convention speech and smashed them all together. Then I selected, as randomly as possible, phrases from Shakespeare's Henry V and shuffled them into Palin baby's words of wisdom. I started out with tercets but ended up with quartets, quintets and sextets. Here y'are:
No ; for my manly heart doth yearn privelege of harder, graver
McCain pundits enlisted a babble of green fields, special love i
have a message: as clear as is the summer’s sun,
commercial fisherman Yup’ik with a waxen epitaph.
elementary Sally Heath Usurp’d from you and your progenitors
German habber-dasher, unlikely PTA governor We are no tyrant,
“community organizer,” This the Dauphin speaks. Washington elite,
the mute wonder lurketh in men’s ears. Right reason
pray you to proceed integrity power brokers of Alaska, we shook
And whipp’d the offending Adam out of him. Control
surplus a billion dollars in vetoes. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
basic fairness Descend unto the daughter. Private-sector Gulf of Mexico on
imported heating oil Abqaiq; the mute wonder lurketh
in men’s ears. Facility in Saudi deliveries
Edward the Black Prince, Slope of Alaska got lots
excuse administration, ‘twixt Elbe and Sala, geothermal ingenuity his
dramatic speeches in the book of Numbers is it writ:
our opponent cloud Styrofoam, As did the former lions of your blood
to accomplish to reduce arm to invade the French,
against forfeit delay more too plan payroll with hot assays,
so work the honey-bees, by hundreds of billions of dollars built
like millions With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries face
landmark speechmaking Comes sneaking and so sucks
her princely eggs, lobbyists prospect of 2000 herd
do-nothing gentlemen fellow not though high and low and lower,
just a community Like music.
“Fighting for you” The poor mechanic porters squarely nightmare
suffered a six-by-four compassion Lieutenant Commander Fly to one mark ;
interrogations my fellow This the Dauphin speaks.
Americans inspire inspired Tennis-balls, my liege.
hope the theme may God bless America When I do rouse me in my throne
No ; for my manly heart doth yearn privelege of harder, graver
McCain pundits enlisted a babble of green fields, special love i
have a message: as clear as is the summer’s sun,
commercial fisherman Yup’ik with a waxen epitaph.
elementary Sally Heath Usurp’d from you and your progenitors
German habber-dasher, unlikely PTA governor We are no tyrant,
“community organizer,” This the Dauphin speaks. Washington elite,
the mute wonder lurketh in men’s ears. Right reason
pray you to proceed integrity power brokers of Alaska, we shook
And whipp’d the offending Adam out of him. Control
surplus a billion dollars in vetoes. The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
basic fairness Descend unto the daughter. Private-sector Gulf of Mexico on
imported heating oil Abqaiq; the mute wonder lurketh
in men’s ears. Facility in Saudi deliveries
Edward the Black Prince, Slope of Alaska got lots
excuse administration, ‘twixt Elbe and Sala, geothermal ingenuity his
dramatic speeches in the book of Numbers is it writ:
our opponent cloud Styrofoam, As did the former lions of your blood
to accomplish to reduce arm to invade the French,
against forfeit delay more too plan payroll with hot assays,
so work the honey-bees, by hundreds of billions of dollars built
like millions With sunken wrack and sumless treasuries face
landmark speechmaking Comes sneaking and so sucks
her princely eggs, lobbyists prospect of 2000 herd
do-nothing gentlemen fellow not though high and low and lower,
just a community Like music.
“Fighting for you” The poor mechanic porters squarely nightmare
suffered a six-by-four compassion Lieutenant Commander Fly to one mark ;
interrogations my fellow This the Dauphin speaks.
Americans inspire inspired Tennis-balls, my liege.
hope the theme may God bless America When I do rouse me in my throne
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