Monday, December 15, 2008

The Geek Poet's Tale [the third fragment]


[continued from the second fragment]

   The Geek poet had set aside his silver box that would

   Show the Earth-bound Beat the blogs and wikis under its hood.


In the Beat poet's blue pack was a collection of books,

Bound sheets of browned paper, read multiple times by their looks.

(Books, I only read about on my native Blogosphere.)

He set a few out, leaving behind his other packed "gear":

A Kerouac, two Ginsbergs, plus a Corso stacked beside

A Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, like its bride.


Then flexing his metaphorical muscles beside my

Scrawny geek frame, he began by asking, "Want to get high? ..."




[this ends the third fragment*]

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* Still scouring blog backups on Blogosphere for more fragments, I will post them as they become available. -pt

2 comments:

  1. This is such a cool series. When it's finished you should collect them together in a chapbook or arrange them all somewhere. Such a great idea and wonderfully done.

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  2. Thanks!

    So far this "serial" has been posted on a Monday (December 1, 8, 15) — mostly happenstance. Now I see it as a weekly goal: a regular (Monday) "discovery" of a new "fragment".

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