Bailout!

[Lightning Rod]

I need a bailout
note to self:
hitchhike to Washington and ask for one

if we let the poetry industry go under
our whole society is in peril of collapse
think of all the industries that depend on it:
movies, advertising, music, politics

oh sure, we finally got a poet laureate
but what about the mainstreet poets
who keep the coffee houses going
what about the supply chain of ideas?
We Need a Bailout

[stilltrucking]

So true

Little I can do to bail you out

Except be grateful for poets

[Artguy]

bailout this sinking ship called humanity...I remain hopelessly adrift in the equatorial waters of my life...

[judih]

guys if i had a rowboat, i'd row out and get ya.
we could rebuild atlantis

[mtmynd]

bailout is a curious word to use for corrupt capitalism... bailing out is useless if the leak is not fixed.

sorry, eLRod, too serious a reply for an innocent poem, but...

[Nazz]

Why not? Let's all get in line. Smart one, Lightning Rod.

I wonder who will bail out the bailer-outers?

[tarbaby]

I think it is a matter of balance Cecil. We need more corrupt poets.

[K&D]

I'm a corrupt poet

"the best artist don't borrow they steal" i'm paraphrasing Wilde here but seriously...i refrence so much i'm practicly stealling

[Lightning Rod]

thank you guys for reading
your checks are in the mail

k&d
I've heard that quote attributed to Picasso and to Eliot but never to Wilde

[K&D]

i'm looking it up old man!

dude....this is the ironic thing about this quote....its all over the internet mingled and changed and mis quoted!

maybe it was T.S Elliot....but Wilde had more fun, i'll tell you that...well right up untill you know, he didnt.

[K&D]

also it goes "immature poets borrow, the best poets steal" specifically about poetry.

[K&D]

also about that check.....


dude, no ones read my final tiger, tiger....hello, i like was really emotionally connected to it...it didn't spark any thoughts, no jesus alyson your a genius becaus you know l-rod thats what i like to hear, and yet here i am alone, in my room starring at a stuffed animal from when i was 5 on a friday night waiting, just waiting for someone to say

"Kiddo, your a genuis, totally unrecognized, bad spelling mother you know whater"

and i know maybe i don't deserve it....but i think its like academy award winning one of the best things i've written....and i know....i show up here and expect to be welcomed back when i abandoned you guys for my college years...a kids got to live, A KID HAS GOT TO LIVE

lol- i hope the sarcasm comes through on this post...except the part about me being a genius, thats all real folks

k, i'm out.

[Lightning Rod]

I think that this is one of those apocryphal rubrics that we will never know who really wrote

it just endures because it's true

(Churchill probably said everything at one time or another and Twain and Russell)

[K&D]

dude- it was all about Plato

if that man didn't say it it wasn't worth being heard!

[K&D]

except that whole thing about women being suffierior to men and the fact he helped create a hierarcical institution while supposing another one in his writting...woops....

just thought i'd have a reflective you know look at power in the politics of who's who in our cannon for a sec....the real guys probably some guy we don't know becaue he didn't have the support money to be heard or remembered in the way the others did

i post like still trucking- i have to go now...i am going now to brave the outside world, a burriotto place all by myself, me at a table alone, burritto in hand . its actually scarrier to go get out when you don't know anybody.