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I want a WriteOutLoud woman to do anything in the world for me

I want a WriteOutLoud woman to do anything in the world for me

She could lick my piece into shape; I mean my poetry.

 

I’d take down her pantoums and jiggle her spondees for fun

She’d mouth both my rondels and my phaleucian

We’d make the two-backed couplet until completion.

 

Now people if you are wondering why this poor boy has vowed

To work his way through all the girls who frequent WriteOutLoud

The answer, my friends, is plain to see

I’m a true cunning linguist; I just love poetry.

 

I’d love that woman when she’s in expletive mode

Or with her sestina they’d do a Sapphic ode

I’d play with her caesura till my diction explodes.

 

I want a WriteOutLoud woman to do anything in the world for me

I want a WriteOutLoud woman to do anything in the world for me

She can lick my piece into shape; I mean my poetry.

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Isobel

Mon 19th Aug 2013 19:45

Well if you were to ask me to lick this piece into shape, I'd have to say that some of the demonstrative and possessive pronouns in your song were at odds with the written format - perhaps you became more demonstrative and possessive as you got really into your subject matter, John?

For now, I think I'll echo Ann - but I did have a jolly good chuckle - and I LOVE the blues - the guitar work and the flow of your poetry. Did it just trip of your tongue John?

We should do a double act - when I'm being smutty, I think I could out-smut you!

;)) x

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 16th Aug 2013 18:48

"You should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky" ;)

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Graham Sherwood

Wed 14th Aug 2013 13:04

I'm waiting for the "Baling Out" lament!! Hang on tight John for another bumpy ride.

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John Coopey

Tue 13th Aug 2013 19:49

I've never been able to play, MC, Robert Johnson's "Kind Hearted Woman" or Elmore James "Dust My Broom" (only parts of each of them). So I amalgamated them into this.

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 12th Aug 2013 16:49

This is the best reason I can think of for staying with WOL!! "Leadbelly" Coopey does the business - which evokes (for me) of a musical mix of WOL poet, the word- rich Harry O'Neill, and naughty old Catallus - brought bang up to date. And I can't go much higher than that.
Eye-wateringly good!

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Starfish

Sun 11th Aug 2013 20:13

Oh heck.
Starfish

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