Monday, July 30, 2007

Poem Practice

While I was out throwing away any money I still have on vinyl records and Korean horror films, I ran into a man who has a typewriter set up on the street, who will write you a poem for only asking him to. "Strictly donations," the man told me. After five or six minutes he had a poem ready for me. Aside from the fact that he was able to produce a poem in really good time, it was a good poem. I only had to name him a "word" and a job.

Apparently, this started in California, and a friend of the originator's brought it to New Orleans, and he was friends with this guy and brought it to New York, or something along those lines.

I might try it occasionally as an exercise, but I need to practice a little more before I can get up to this type of thing. I'll do some small challenges with some friends and things like this first.

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