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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Poetry Lives Again!

Posted by on March 15 at 13:22 PM

Billy Corgan injects fresh life into the morbid body of poetry with his new collection blinking with fists. Here, open your mouth and have a taste of vitality:

the follies of summer

Quicksand, ocean sky
Wondering, don’t ask me why or how we got here
We just did
The most eternal sun-drenched kiss is locked in my mind as
something I won’t miss
Or even try to remember
Summer and come and gone so many times I’ve lost count
Endless, nameless, marked by time as nothing special
But the warmth is here, you see
In darling soliloquy
Hidden in costume and fine-boned prose
Under canopies or sheltered light and life
Summer is here and it is all mine


Billy is presently working on a novel that will put to shame The Hottest State.


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"Symptom."

Oops. Wrong comments field. This was intended as a one-word description of our president, not a one-word haiku.

Words that shouldn't be in that poem (or any poem, barring extreme circumstances):

Quicksand
Wondering
Eternal
Summer
Endless
Nameless
Special
Hidden

Nevertheless, it's wonderful to find out that Billy Corgan is a better poet than Jewel, Jimmy Carter, James Stewart, and probably Tupac Shakur.

On an unrelated note, Ethan Hawke gave the most heart-breaking performance of Hamlet that I've ever seen.

HAHAHAAHAHA! Andrew, you're funny.

PS: Isn't "Endless, Nameless" a Nirvana tune?
Is Billy missing Kurt Cobain? Awww, that's sweet.

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