12-12-2025, 12:00 PM
I wrote about 95% of this poem some 30 years ago when I was doing graduate work at the University of Alberta. There are about 70 stanzas and they're all about the concepts I was studying at the time.
It should be fairly easy to spot the other 5% of the poem, since those particular stanzas refer to more recent events. The imagery is also a bit more recent. Most of it was done in the late 1990's.
Please feel free to critique both the poetic devices as well as the concepts I've written about...especially the concepts, since I'm social science geek who can't do small talk, but loves to chat about Tocqueville and Darwin, etc.
Below is the link for the poem without imagery. Boring! But if you must, and you're confused about references to the "previous 37 pages" or the "previous chapter", just go to the evanbedford.com site and scroll down to the yellow book thumbnail. The chapters in question are XI and XII
https://www.evanbedford.com/dick_diddled_sue.pdf
Here is the poem with imagery (less boring, but more time consuming): https://www.evanbedford.com/pom1.htm
And here is the poem with imagery overlain with my wise -- ha, ha -- commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zZRnU7OxI&list=PLXWr-pHeloFNEe4BZBPkR2ox9Gi6Q3AMd&index=3 (hmm, the entire youtube address isn't being picked up. You'll either have to copy and paste or just go to my website and click on youtube thumbnail. It's in there somewhere)
It should be fairly easy to spot the other 5% of the poem, since those particular stanzas refer to more recent events. The imagery is also a bit more recent. Most of it was done in the late 1990's.
Please feel free to critique both the poetic devices as well as the concepts I've written about...especially the concepts, since I'm social science geek who can't do small talk, but loves to chat about Tocqueville and Darwin, etc.
Below is the link for the poem without imagery. Boring! But if you must, and you're confused about references to the "previous 37 pages" or the "previous chapter", just go to the evanbedford.com site and scroll down to the yellow book thumbnail. The chapters in question are XI and XII
https://www.evanbedford.com/dick_diddled_sue.pdf
Here is the poem with imagery (less boring, but more time consuming): https://www.evanbedford.com/pom1.htm
And here is the poem with imagery overlain with my wise -- ha, ha -- commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1zZRnU7OxI&list=PLXWr-pHeloFNEe4BZBPkR2ox9Gi6Q3AMd&index=3 (hmm, the entire youtube address isn't being picked up. You'll either have to copy and paste or just go to my website and click on youtube thumbnail. It's in there somewhere)