Best Song Lyrics I’ve Found In A While:
So I’ll stick to my guns,
but from now on it’s war:
I’m armed with the past,
and the will, and a brick
- Frightened Rabbit, Good Arms vs. Bad Arms
Best Line from Neruda That Used To Be a Favorite Until I Forgot It (Tie):
I want to do with you / what [...]
( I have rescued the first two paragraphs of this from something I wrote last summer, something begun and never finished. The rest is likewise not a real narrative but rather a collection of stuff, much of which is from a notebook I’ve been writing tiny bits in since last century. It is leather-bound and [...]
(I don’t normally write poetry that a) rhymes; and b) isn’t funny. Here is an example of a poem that breaks both rules.)
Frayed bends of pages
shuffle from between
the ends of ages:
a notebook, seen
through many years
of a young man’s life;
While you shifted gears
from girlfriend to wife
and watched me grasp
the bare, stripped ends
of a wish by the [...]
I have been collecting literary / writing contests lately, and most of them are pretty cut and dried: type, style, genre, word count, deadline, etc. You do occasionally find something very interesting, though. Geist is a good book, and they have launched an example of such a contest:
The Geist Fortune Cookie Contest
First Prize: $250 | [...]
(Written in 2008)
What the hands want,
the heart desires
until the sun sets
and the moon retires.
Why the fuck am I at Wal-Mart
on Easter Sunday?