[New-Poetry] Thank you, Walt Whitman

[David Graham]

I heard Matt Cook give a reading night before last:   funniest reading I've
been to in, well, maybe forever.

He's a slammer who also works pretty well on the page, I'd say.  *Eavesdrop
Soup* is his latest, and apparently there's a new one forthcoming shortly,
also from Manic D Press (which may be the funniest press name, come to think
of it).



On 2/8/07 12:24 PM, "Crisman Cooley" <ccooley at overdomain.com> wrote:

> Thanks David.  This is the funniest pome I've read in a long time.
> Besides Hal's of course.
> 
>> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:20:26 -0600
>> From: David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu>
>> Subject: [New-Poetry] Thank you, Walt Whitman
>> 
>> Thank You
>> 
>> My body temperature was below normal; it was like 97.5--
>> It was like I was turning into a radio station,
>> Which was fine, because my radio had stopped working--
>> The batteries had died, beautifully, with dignity, in their sleep.
>> 
>> The morning paper seemed beyond me, but it was below me.
>> A piece of gunk fell out of my eye
>> And landed on an Associated Press photograph.
>> Russian business leaders with faces like water balloons--
>> Then a story about children hiding in a leaf pile who were hit by a
>> van.
>> 
>> Then the photograph of the demonstrator outside the Federal building--
>> It was impossible to tell if he was shouting or yawning.
>> 
>> Thank you, Walt Whitman, for doing whatever it was you did
>> So that we don't have to write like they did before you came along.
>> 
>> 
>> --Matt Cook.  Eavesdrop Soup.  Manic D Press, 2005.

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