Comments on: Advice to poets

By: zizka

zizka — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 02:10:35 +0000

I don’t like vodka, but termites are tasty, sort of like sardines. They only eat wood so they’re less of a health risk than you, me, or that guy with the tough penis in Germany. (You might get dry rot I suppose, or Dutch elm disease, or blight). My guess is that penis is sort of like tongue and needs to be prepared specially, you can’t just fry it up like I did the last time I cooked it. Tongue, I mean — it was tough.

I wouldn’t eat a stink-bug, though.

By: mig

mig — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 11:05:27 +0000

I dare you to eat a bug, and drink the rest of that vodka in one go. You know what, that reminds me, I was at a New Year’s gettogether, and the adults had bought booze for the kids, too. Seriously. Not play champagne, like the little kids had. They had stocked up on these sweet vodka- and rum-based drinks in glass bottles and twelve and fourteen-year olds were drinking them. I was sort of shocked. Beta didn’t drink any, smart kid.

What I’m saying, all I’m saying is, I dunno; lots of good poetry on the ‘net, as far as I can judge that.

Thanks, poets!

By: Zizka

Zizka — Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:15:16 +0000

Poets never get any money for their poetry. They get paid for readings and for teaching poetry. Occasionally they receive sexual favors, too, but not the way athletes and bankers do.

We do feel better if our poems exist in dead-tree editions, so any of the publishers who throng this site feel like it, they can publish my book, which is posted at my URL in a really tacky format. But ironically tacky, in a really super post-modernist way.

Mig, you daring me to do this, right?