foxmonkey's jazz and spoken word cafe.

[foxmonkey]

Except without the jazz, and without the speaking. ;-) Edited to add: Also, this is not a cafe. Again with the poetry, yes!

This little foxmonkey-underlined snippet is by Nikki Giovanni (1943- ), from the coolest poem ev-ah. Dedicated to someone on my friends list whose brain and soul have been filled to the brim. Take a deep breath. :-)


From 'Ego Tripping'

I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission

Comments

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm offline for 24 hours and you turn into a beatnik?

ROFL! Snap your fingers if you dig the groove, kitten. ;-)

I'm trying to rework the same friggin' ten lines or so that have been mocking me since yesterday. I needed fresh inspiration, so I ran to my Norton's. Poetry! Words and stuff! It's helping, too. I'm rereading things I'd forgotten I loved. :-)

Here's a little Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919- ) for you, underlined and snippetized by a younger foxmonkey:

From 'Sometime During Eternity'

he starts wailing
and claiming he is hip
to who made heaven and earth

You're hot
they tell him
And they cool him
They stretch him on the Tree to cool

calling Him to come down
and sit in
on their combo

Him just hang there
on His Tree
looking real Petered out
and real cool
and also
according to a roundup
of late world news
from the usual unreliable sources
real dead

[scot-ty.livejournal.com]

So. Who are you and what did you do with Fox?

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

Squee! It's me. I'm just reveling in words tonight. And since I'm not a poet (oh, SO not a poet), I'm letting poets speak for me. Would you like another selection? :-)

[scot-ty.livejournal.com]

To quote someone I know and love, I'd like my friend back!

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

To quote someone I know and love, I'd like my friend back!

You'll have your friend back by...10:00 eastern time. After a phone call, and hopefully a bit more editing.

::cries::