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Mary Meriam	What do you think of this one?	Lead	[-]
Posts: 427 (07/24/08 20:49:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None I read it over at Harriet today. Titty-Bop Sonnet by Jill Kelly What's to stop me, say, from writing A beauty's-best blazon, never looking Above, below, or beyond gianormous Jugs jugging-in at a C-cup 36? Well, sure, some critic might claim, Porco è porcu, his pen unable to sustain A poetic argument of "real" value; But that's no reason not to do as I do, Which is express a love of bib-bubs In a fourteen-line song to the God of Titty-bops-hast thou forsaken me? Why not hand over a naked Jilly Kelly So I can finally stop writing this Thing & slide my this between her thats? Mary
Alan Wickes		#1	[-]
Posts: 1687 (07/25/08 13:55:10) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Mary, well, being a middle-aged Englishman living a sheltered life in a quiet town in the middle of nowhere, I'm afraid I had to hit the urban dictionary to fully understand this. Ok, it's inventive, vaguely funny, slightly risque - a seaside postcard of a sonnet....but in the end, is not just a bit...tiresome? Or has my inner Victor Meldrew finally triumphed? best wishes Alan
sonnet622		#2	[-]
Posts: 2255 (07/25/08 17:27:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm not outraged by it or anything, but just don't think it's that good as a poet. And I guess I am a bit ticked at the "gianormous C-cup 36." Old 40D Margaret
Mary Meriam		#3	[-]
Posts: 430 (07/25/08 18:42:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks, Alan and Margaret - I agree with both of you. News flash: Jilly Kelly is actually a guy named Alessandro Porco with a book called The Jill Kelly Poems. Should have known. My search for inspiring lesbian poems continues.... Mary
Mike Alexander		#4	[-]
Posts: 4047 (07/26/08 05:17:34) Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	You know, I'd like it a lot more if it did something just a step beyond mere playfulness. I love playfulness. I like that the poem used "gianormous" & the play-Italian (I don't think "porcu" is a word -- is it possible that his name is Porcu, & not Porco? Obviously, "porco" is a pig.) I don't mind a poem about breasts at all. But where's his subversive underside, really? The lines "Well, sure, some critic might claim, / Porco è porcu, his pen unable to sustain / A poetic argument of "real" value; / But that's no reason not to do as I do" pretend that the mere fact that somebody somewhere will think he's unable to do better is reason enough to write this. Which I think is about the worst rasion d'art I can think of. I don't feel strongly enough against this to give it a thumbs-down, but... As for it turning out to be a man, how do you know it is not a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman? Hmm?
Mary Meriam		#5	[-]
Posts: 431 (07/26/08 07:30:13) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	take a look, and you tell me: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~asporco/ I found these lines the funniest: his pen unable to sustain A poetic argument of "real" value Mary
Owl		#6	[-]
Posts: 679 (07/27/08 06:04:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Mary Meriam wrote: Thanks, Alan and Margaret - I agree with both of you. News flash: Jilly Kelly is actually a guy named Alessandro Porco with a book called The Jill Kelly Poems. Should have known. My search for inspiring lesbian poems continues.... Umm...That's not the Jill Kelly I think of. This is the one I (and perhaps the author of the poem) had in mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Kelly Jim
Mary Meriam		#7	[-]
Posts: 432 (07/27/08 06:14:27) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm sure you're right, Jim. Thanks. Mary
RosaRugosa		#8	[-]
Posts: 1433 (07/28/08 08:22:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I hate yuku!!! I typed a response, hit Quick Reply, got prompted to log in, and then my response was lost. Why couldn't they save it in the session??? Anyway. This is cute, and has a certain (ahem) bounciness. It would be better, though, imo, if s/he had written a sonnet about boobs instead of a sonnet about writing a sonnet about boobs. It's like s/he thinks that's an outrageous use of the sonnet form, or something, which goes back to that tired old fallacy that sonnets have to be pretty love poems written in Elizabethan diction. Rosa
sonnet622		#9	[-]
Posts: 2257 (07/28/08 08:46:31) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Apropos of very little, I just saw an assortment of "cash stash" jars at a store: Beer money, party money, etc. One was labeled "Boob job funds." Margaret
Mary Meriam		#10	[-]
Posts: 435 (07/28/08 08:49:45) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Rosa, Rosa, Rosa, puleeze. Jilly Kelly did not write this sonnet. A guy in Buffalo wrote it. Mary
Mary Meriam		#11	[-]
Posts: 436 (07/30/08 16:07:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	From Harriet --- Ange -- since John has recommended my work to you (I think he's correct to do so -- it's in line with what you're discussing here), I'd love to send you a copy of my book -- my treat. Please do get in contact (a_porco@yahoo.ca); if you pass along your mailing addy, I'll send out a copy of _Augustine in Carthage_, which includes those salacious limericks! Alessandro POSTED BY: ALESSANDRO ON JULY 30, 2008 4:19 PM Mary

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