[New-Poetry] From My Blog Something Barry Probably Won't Like

[Michael Snider]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

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>>  I'm not sure I don't intend the weird, Mike.  Everything intelligent
> starts out seeming weird to others.  Which doesn't mean that everything
> starting out weird is intelligent.  Anyway, I conclude that the clang of
> what I said has not found resolution in your mind.
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> --Bob
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Bob, I sincerely hope you never intended the weird I was talking about.
Richard Feynman, who got the Nobel for his work in quantum chromodynamics
once said that the day Einstein's 1905 paper on relativity came out,
everyone who could read it understood it and  knewi it was right. On the
other hand, he said, no one will ever understand quantum mechanics, but it
was demonstrably true because the calculations work. (But then, Einstein
never accepted it, saying something deeoper and importantly, simpler,
underlay it.)

So no, the new is not inevitably weird -- and is usually, in fact a sign
that something is wrong with some part of one's understanding, and with
poems there aren't any calculations to work or not.

And no, I'm not a fan of clang. I am a fan of Lighght, even if I'm not sure
it's a poem. I'm no essentialist, but neither am I Humpty Dumpty

-Mike.
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