corinna

[constantine]

i don't care what the women say
they are fools and will always be so
i refuse to play ovid to their corinna -
they can write me poems
for a change, and i won't
even read them - no, not even one!
i've wasted my genius, my vital energies
for what? hamburger helper?
a seat at their vanity?
i've written elegies in their honor
blindfolded, i walked the high wire
back and forth,
and still got the treatment
i want to love them so badly, i really do
but it's impossible, they'll have none of it
and so i am reduced to writing poetry
about women that don't even exist

[stilltrucking]

I call them my paper dolls
that don't exist except in art
and novels and poems
and on computer screens
silicon dames
so easy to write to them.
so hard to read them
but I am still a fool
because I do

the right stuff dino
I been good sitting on my hands waiting for you to post it to your artblog so I could riff on it in some out of the way place where none would notice it.

[constantine]

better paper than blow up

[mnaz]

Hear here! I mean, you just give and give and end up with frozen food. It ain't right!

[constantine]

sure it ain't right - it never was right; arguably, it will never be right. thanks mnaz.

[WIREMAN]

i'm at the age where you don't give a flyin' fuck.....night before last i fell in love wih rachel and told her so, of course i was drunk as hell......still got the romance in me, just don't give a shit....

[Steve Plonk]

Hmmm, there...Scenario is what the dream does...
Long live your dreams... I said that.

"I got a bird that whistles
I got a bird that sings
But I ain’ a-got Corrina
Life don’t mean a thing..."
--Bob Dylan said the quote, from "Corrina, Corrina".

[constantine]

thanks steve. i remember steppenwolf doing a version of corinna, corinna, but i believe ovid's version predates that by around 2000 years!

[stilltrucking]

I see now that I was confused. I thought you were alluding to Korrina/Corrina the 6th century B.C.E. Greek lyrical poet.

I did not realize she was an actual living woman in Rome, I thought she was one of his literary dolls.

One advantage of paper over plastic is that it is biodegradable. Same as flesh and blood.



Ovid does remind me of you Constantine, and you remind me of Ovid.
I am thinking about writing a cookbook. Hamburger Helper and the Art of Love