Skinny Silver Time
[This poest has been deleted because it is included in my chapbook, "Into the East."]
The daily ponderings of Beth Peters as she writes about Cystic Fibrosis and lung trasnplant.
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Yo Old Friends! It's me, Beth Peters / CysticGal / the artist actually known as Mary ElizaBeth Peters . I am moving on from this bl...
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1. To the guy that broke up with me right after I got out of the hospital: You are cowardly, and selfish, and also bald*. 2. To the neighbor...
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Tonight I got calls from CysticDad and CysticMommy saying that they are moving CysticGal to the ICU. She's just not breathing very well...
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This'll be yet another quick post to hopefully launch me into posting more often. I finally arrived home on Thursday late afternoon, and...
Nice Plath shout out!
ReplyDeleteThanks, KR. I thought of the line "silence has me..." and I kept thinking, "that sounds like something. i am thinking of another poem. i am plagiarizing something..." and then i realized...ah yes, plath. so there we go. if you can't just use it, quote it and move on! ha.
ReplyDeletePS. Is it plagiarism if the only thing you are copying is the rhythm? Discuss.
ReplyDeleteWell, wait. It's the number of beats and also the structure
[BIG IDEA] has me [present tense verb] like a [3 syllables indicating time].
That is why it rang thru as plagiarism. I was like "silence sets me going like a tick tick tock"- the way it first came to my mind- and i was like, "i did NOT make that up. that is someone's poem...."
Discuss.