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Saturday, August 31, 2013

this is just to say

this is just to say
that I was
saving those plums,
but you go ahead.

So much depends upon
a red fire department
ambulance

as your eyes glaze
and water.

Forgive me
the plums were poisoned
so sweet and
so cold

beside your white
selfish chicken ass.

______

I hate William Carlos Williams poetry, and I especially hate "This Is Just To Say" and  "The Red Wheelbarrow." 

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold 



The Red Wheelbarrow

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.



Both above poems by William Carlos Williams. Parody at top by me for Real Toads mini-challenge.   

18 comments:

  1. Well, then, this prompt was obviously made just for you. I think it's a pity his body of work is defined by two poems, because there is a lot more to his craft than they demonstrate.

    Your parody is very clever, and I'm sure Catblossom would approve.

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  2. what, did he write haiku to you in a past life?

    a perfect frankenstein of a write you stitched together from his two dead bodies, er, poems.

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  3. The first three lines--had the potential for sweetness. What a surprise, Shay, that your poem took a sharp turn to an ending where everyone gets what they deserve...

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  4. Wry and dry, satire served blood-chillingly cold.

    Laughin at grapeling's comment.

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  5. Ha. Well you have made me laugh. I have mixed feelings about Williams and glad to see such a refreshing lack of ambivalence! Very funny. This is Karin at Manicddaily at Wordpress. K.

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  6. Wow. How do you make read so perfectly? You make it look effortless and we all know that isn't true.



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  7. Pa-row-row-row your Dy!


    I prefer your version. I do remember studying the red wheel barrow. Feh!



    Aloha

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  8. Chilling, especially that goosebumpy white chicken ass ;D

    Fun to read! I love the Red Wheel Barrow poem~

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  9. .. can't stop laughing at the labels! Gotta go back for a second read of the poem.

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  10. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
    Luv, K

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  11. While I do like WCW (don't be hating on me!), I always love a good parody. Yours was brilliant as always!

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  12. Shay, I like WCW... and I think he would have laughed his ass off at your parody. A poet without a sense of humor is... dry as toast.

    This really helped my mood! I knew what poems you were spearing from the first lines and the "wheelbarrow" in the pic! Amy

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  13. you are only one lab accident away from becoming a Super - Villian, You are awesome.

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  14. Oh, holy shit! Girl, here's the first poem that I wrote for the same challenge.

    So much depends

    on an antidote

    to the poison laced plum

    you pilfered.

    Great minds, eh?

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  15. I love this sarcastic treatment of Williams' two poems. Thanks for the chuckle.

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