[New-Poetry] "Shop Talk I"

[Bob Grumman]

> 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.

Not even if the word, "yes," in bright yellow letters replaced the sun in 
the sky?

> 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

Fun list.

--Bob G.