Rhymes in sand 4/26
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“Even if you’ve never had a piano lesson in your life…” Illustrated by Bill Griffith!
Bill Griffith's "Musical Pins" inspired not just one queron but a second as footnotes. “Even if you’ve never had a piano lesson in your life…” 1 three Zippy the Pinhead comic strips 2 1. These days you can get a gloss of anything you don’t understand, watch Liberace’s spot for The Baldwin Fun Machine, get sold and ring it up with shipping—without leaving your post. Then videocapture with all your being! 2. Saturday Night Sing-a-longs—teens thing they’re tops! Mom puts out a plate of garbanzo crescents. Dad plugs in the home fog machine and flash pots. Suddenly you’re three of the many Osmonds. “I think about your lovin’.” “Double lovin’.” 3. We’re graced with a visit from our long-nosed friend, so we gather around the keyboard console. His face opens up—such a sweet audience. When he starts to get confused after a while, we explain: the organ sounds best off. So stop ...
small st--whAT?!
This gifpoem takes words from Janice Sandeen, and the artists noted herein. This month of small stones, I set out with the intention of writing one per day, but the flu laid me low around the 20th, and I fell off the wagon—and onto this idea of gifpoetry that's completely fascinating to me now. What possibilities are there? What can one do with this format? I feel like I'm just beginning to think about it and find out. In this one, for instance, there are three (at least) simultaneous poems unfolding between Janice's text, the words from the language artists, and the little credit line I put in at the bottom. I'm taking a Ze Frank approach to this too, which is not to mull over the creative too much, but to kick the ideas out into the world even if not fully formed.
