[Sharon Passmore]

The email I recieved and posted on General Talk, Disappearing Phrases , got me thinking it might be fun to write some poems containing phrases that will never co-exist. Can anyone include a fender skirt and a hard drive in the same poem? How about the space shuttle and a running board?

[Michael Cantor]

This is tough, because "space shuttle" is metrically unfriendly.

From Song of the Astronaut - 2050

When training for the launch we drank and whored,
shared women in each rum-drenched, blood-red place;
but now we must behave like lambs in space:
shuttle to Uranus - running bored.



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[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Speaking of Unfriendly

It was a hard drive home with her in the car
then I tried for a goodnight kiss:
but she ran past the fender, skirt in her hands
denying me conjugal bliss.

Sharon - your title was misleading. Here I was thinking of the Rocky Horror Picture Show - 'Let's do the time warp again!'



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[Michael Cantor]

Eratosphere Graffiti

Finding girlfriends can be wicked hard:
drive down Main Street - but not on a bender -
be protective of psyche and fender;
skirt-chasing's no game for the dis-carred


(Get some other participants, Sharon. I'm punning as fast as I can.)




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[Rose Kelleher]

How about a whalebone corset and a naugahyde jacket?

Her hobby? Etching images of ships
on whalebone. Corset doesn't bring in cash.
For that, she brings in any crook who skips
town: a bounty hunter. In a flash,
she nabbed a joe named Jack Bananaboat
who'd robbed a bank and left behind a glove.
She could've turned him in, but said (I quote):
"Naw, g'hide, Jack." It was puppy love.


Gee. I'm so proud of this fine piece.

[Michael Cantor]

Yes, Rosa, I understand your pride. It is very reminiscent of Emily Dickinson.

[Rose Kelleher]

Thanks. She's a major influence.

[Michael Cantor]

I'm sorry. I was thinking of Eric Dickerson. I often confuse them.



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[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

...it might be fun to write some poems containing phrases that will never co-exist. Can anyone include a fender skirt and a hard drive in the same poem?

How about 'Michael Cantor' and 'the milk of human kindness'?

*grin*

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[Rose Kelleher]

Oh, well, I was thinking of Angie Dickinson anyway.