[New-Poetry] "Shop Talk I"

[James Cervantes]

Shop Talk


1.  Don't cheat on your images by having an affair with a conceit.

2.  Sell your metaphor and get a real house.

3.  For leaner meals, write your shopping list in rhyme.

4.  A sestina on the coast, a 100 horsepower sonnet, the spray of free verse: it
     doesn't get any better than that.

5.  When the barometric pressure goes down, some poems begin to leak.

6.  At welding school, sparks fly and images fuse.

7.  The ozone layer thinned above the poetry slam.

8.  A moving poem is ridden by every Tom, Dick, and Harry.

9.  The poet laureate read a poem about a slice of bologna between
      two slices of Wonder Bread.  The final couplet supplied the mayo.

10.  Despite the odds, a cliché grew up to be a symbol but did not run
for office.

11.  Do you look in the mirror every day and ask, "What do I mean?"

12.  Reading should be like writing.



-- Jim
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