Barbara's Cat wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>
> > the topic of comix characters
>
> is not on-topic in the poetry groups.
>
> --
> Cm~
Hello, Barbie!
Those poetry groups were snipped after the original topic of the thread
had played out, which was the poem "Dressed Like Superman":
"At my school they offered French, Italian, and Thousand-Island" - Bill
Maher
Dressed Like Superman
(composed while burning a DVD of Raging Bull)
In the Brooklyn apartment building near Prospect Park,
Howie lived one flight down from me, at the stairs landing --
I knocked on the door, I was four, and dressed like Superman.
You had to pretend that strawberry blond looked comic strip blue-black,
yet my sister's red knee socks, a plum-pink bath towel,
a nice crayon S inside a kind of home plate on my blue pajama top
gave you a chance to imagine:
my father's white satin bathing trunks and wide belt
worn over my blue pajama pants, red.
But Howie's grandmother opened the door
and there are no words for how she laughed,
that immigrant from Galicia, or from Konigsberg or Ortelsburg,
places that are gone like Rust Belt amusement parks,
swimming pools and dance halls,
roller skating rinks, and the allegory of Love.
--
(I think the ultra triteness of the last 3 lines is good stuff, better
than
the original parts throughout. I wrote those lines for Norah Jones to
sing,
if she's reading here. Hi Norah!)
Stuart
--
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"Wobble" by Dockery-Conley:
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