[New-Poetry] Re: a barryism

Bob Grumman bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net
Sun Apr 5 13:32:16 EDT 2009


Barry Spacks wrote:
>
> (secretly a love-poem, likely not likely a CLANG -- but who knows? --  
> more probably just a "barryism":)
>
>                    THE BLACK OLIVE PROTOCOL
>
>                 you are a gleaming black olive
>                          I am a silver spoon
No comment on your poem, Barry--because I don't like olives of any 
color.  As for Barryisms, they are your attacks on my position 
concerning poetry that does nothing that wasn't blah blah blah.  Ad hoc 
term.  Not intended to mean anything worse than "bobisms" would.

--Bob




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