Sunday, December 14, 2008

a very poetic line

go stick
your dick
in a wall socket

and fuckit.

*****

Consider this line and the power of its statement, but also consider how the sounds of the words working in collaboration and rhyme make it all the more powerful and thus elevating it to the realm of poetry, high above mere insult and pornography, though I guess if you are the imaginative type, a person who visualizes everything they read in a vivid manner, then the image of a dick in a wall socket (which could be expanded to 'electric wall socket,' adding that extra hard 'c' to join the ranks of the four other hard c's in the poem - hell, we could even use the word 'cock' and it would be double hard) could be a frightening one, or an erotic one, depending on your proclivities. The very fact that this image and this use of language could make you either nauseous or horny, or both, is testament to the efficacy of the line's poetic DNA.

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Hello, my name is me and I write dirty poetry. Some may say I am just a Bukowski copycat, but since I am alive and he is dead, that is physically impossible, metaphysically probable, and also I don't give a shit. I rather think of myself as a zen monk who doesn't like the taste of soap.

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