Thursday, April 17, 2008

Free verse

The [conversation] was rancid.
I vomited
then left.

--Anonymous

4 comments:

Hollander said...

Was this poem by Anonymous, or by Abbie Normal?

Kristen said...

This is ultra-edgy. Was there a bad scene at the Faculty Center? Some angry discussion about National Poetry Month? But seriously, how was the food?

Karen Miller Russell said...

Kristen, sadly Anonymous wasn't even present. Moreover, I modified the original poem; hence the brackets around [conversation]. Nonetheless, the poem accurately reflects the larger truth of today's lunch at the faculty center.

k said...

It isn't the conversation that is rancid. It's the food. But the poisons already ate away at your brain & replaced active cells with fungi & logic-eating bacteria. It is a very serious condition. And, sadly, too late for most of you. All because you insisted on eating there. I can't believe you eat there: those will be the words on your tombstone.