tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post4389041543075619094..comments2023-10-25T06:13:28.265-04:00Comments on The Conservative Wahoo: This is How You Get Sucked InThe Conservative Wahoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818674434286683162noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-10764687659226292352014-07-27T12:12:02.095-04:002014-07-27T12:12:02.095-04:00We were returning from Topsail, or as CW calls it ...We were returning from Topsail, or as CW calls it "the Outer Banks" (Lord give me strength) and I missed this wonderful example of "street poetry". <br /><br />This poem mines the caches of the Redneck experience and beautifully captures, with its symbolism and mellifluous design an authentic trailerpark ambience which I find simply breathtaking! It is a phonaesthetical masterpiece worthy of a reading in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse full of transvestites on MDMA. <br /><br />Thank you so much Mudge for sharing!"The Hammer"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16342812251947807673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-13587530540794888262014-07-21T06:45:35.896-04:002014-07-21T06:45:35.896-04:00For Hammer in NC from Rhett in WV; a Haiku (and s&...For Hammer in NC from Rhett in WV; a Haiku (and s'more):<br /><br />Damn, in that tube-top<br /> You make me almost forget<br /> That you're my cousin.<br /><br />Naked in repose,<br /> Silvery silhouette girls<br /> Adorn my mudflaps.<br /><br />A painful sadness.<br /> Can't fit big screen TV through<br /> Double-wide's front door.<br /><br />In WalMart toy aisle,<br /> Wailing boy wants wrestling doll.<br /> Mama whups his ass.<br /><br />Distant siren screams.<br /> Idiot Verne's been playing with<br /> Gasoline again.<br /><br />Flashlights pierce darkness.<br /> No nightcrawlers to be found.<br /> Guess we'll gig some frogs.<br /><br />I curse the rainbow<br /> Emblazoned upon his hood.<br /> I hate Jeff Gordon.<br /><br />Tonight we hunger.<br /> Grandma sent grocery money<br /> To Jimmy Swaggart.<br /><br />Set the VCR:<br /> Dukes of Hazzard Marathon<br /> At 9 O'Clock.<br /><br />Sixty-five dollars<br /> And cyclone fence keeps me from<br /> My El Camino.Mudgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10106218895150473141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-91322348246412520582014-07-19T18:45:58.772-04:002014-07-19T18:45:58.772-04:00You need a pretentious female poet of color who in...You need a pretentious female poet of color who insists that all refer to her as "doctor' although she never even achieved a B.A.Tom de Plumenoreply@blogger.com