IIce Challenge #2 - Spinning Brains

[rayheinrich]

I’ve carried many a monkey
...
Smart monkey.
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As to another three characters, well, take your pick: Marquis de Sade, Lenin, innumerable lost loves.....I didn't like, plan this out.  Just waited for the voice in my head.

Prose entries are just fine ,though, considering how it's formatted, it easily fits
the definition of a poem as well. And yeah, dogs, I have one that goes over to
the door and barks when he thinks it's time to take him for a walk -- which he
thinks is necessary more often than I do sometimes.

I'm impressed with your poem, especially what's in the bags. I was prosaically
thinking of physical objects that were literal or direct metaphors. I'm delighted
you extended the metaphor to human characters and dancing. It fits so naturally,
but I never would have thought of that in a thousand years (or in Circe's case
almost three thousand).

Don Juan, Dionysius, Elvis, Goebbels, Circe, Elizabeth Taylor, Joshu... What an
amazingly diverse smorgasbord you have concocted. I'm dazzled by the voices
in your head.

And even associating Zen with "dancing without moving". Wow.

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A string slides across your leg as you unfasten
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kissing the damp filter.

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I am hoping the other three items are a cold beer, a silver american half-dollar, and a corn dog.

I was thinking the poems would just weave the physical objects into the poem,
but you worked the entire bags parable into your poem. What a great idea,
I'm going to change my poem to include the bags in the body of my poem
as well.

Corn dogs, cold beer, and the Yankee dollar... I'm thinking your hopes have
been realized.

"A string slides across your leg as you unfasten the loops of a black velvet pouch",
"the neck of a model from Wakiki, wielding sun as moon", "red lipstick kissing
the damp filter" and all the mentions of body parts... I'm sitting here in a boring
room sitting on a dull chair and yet I'm overcome with sensuous emotions.
Wonderful.