PWoF 2016 - Topic 02 - Sept. 23

[rayheinrich]

Thank you. It's always tense, and I never know if I'm going to come out of the alley alive. I guess I respond to being pushed. Now I can relax, and enjoy the other poems.

    "Relax"... now there's a good incentive.  I think there's a bit of "creative constraint"
going on in NaPM and now PWoF.  Psychological studies of creativity always come up with people being
the most creative when they have just the right amount of constraint.  Too much constraint and you
can't be creative, but too little and you get lost, like staring at a blank page forever.  Here we have
two constraints: Time and topic. (Of course, with you, you've got the unfair advantage of years of
practice and whatever that magical thing in your head is.)

I had his surgeon with an erection, but I knocked that on the head with a teaspoon.

    All, that old nurses trick.

I half expect billy to make some billy-like comment on these lines:
"surgeon, also lover
like a poet
he performs work
on himself as well"

Code Processing A Pig

    I love this title: "Code Processing A Pig"; and I'm a sucker for biblical references.
And how much easier our lives would be, at least in dealing with certain religious people,
if it WAS scrumping that was the original sin.  In the Bible the tree of knowledge bears
sweet fruit, and the tree of life bears bitter.  When I first read that I thought "ha, gotcha";
but no... freedom of thought is some abomination or other, so… as always, we're supposed to suffer.