Comments on: Dyslexicon http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jamie Burkitt http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9699 Jamie Burkitt Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:29:35 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9699 I had no idea the powers that be pulled this kind of crap. Who ARE these people? More importantly, how does removing words help anyone? Words being so dangerous and useless and all... :-I I had no idea the powers that be pulled this kind of crap. Who ARE these people? More importantly, how does removing words help anyone? Words being so dangerous and useless and all… :-I
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]]> By: Beth Hessel-Robinson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9683 Beth Hessel-Robinson Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:00 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9683 Camille, Your meaty and delightful poem made me want to cry. How can we delete from our youngsters' vocabulary words like herring and buttercup, heron and psalm, words that sing and tilt our world toward dirt and sky, and replace with such ether-world, meaningless, unsinging words such as broadband, celebrity and apparatus? How will new poets be born? Thank you for your eulogy. BHR Camille,

Your meaty and delightful poem made me want to cry. How can we delete from our youngsters’ vocabulary words like herring and buttercup, heron and psalm, words that sing and tilt our world toward dirt and sky, and replace with such ether-world, meaningless, unsinging words such as broadband, celebrity and apparatus? How will new poets be born?
Thank you for your eulogy. BHR
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]]> By: becca http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9353 becca Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:00:52 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9353 Perhaps your pithy portmanteau should be added to 2009 Oxford Junior Dictionary. great read! Perhaps your pithy portmanteau should be added to 2009 Oxford Junior Dictionary.

great read!
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]]> By: Martin Earl http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9347 Martin Earl Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:09:48 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9347 Camille, This is the most beautiful blog I’ve ever read. Where do we go from here? You’ve reinvented the whole platform. “This time of year everything’s in bloom.” Thank you this brilliant piece. Martin Camille,

This is the most beautiful blog I’ve ever read.

Where do we go from here? You’ve reinvented the whole platform.

“This time of year everything’s in bloom.”

Thank you this brilliant piece.

Martin
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]]> By: Dizmahn Jah http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9312 Dizmahn Jah Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:06:43 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9312 It was the time to make a stand In a life of misapplied appallingness. It was time to lend a hand In the electro-realm of saint and sinner. TV was what made the us in US who we are Obama oh bam air, bam it real good, sink That new deal woh er pickled in O'Leary O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, cuz their aint No one as American as Barack O'Bama. Camelot Part II: The Uncheating Years. No Sleaze. It was time to spend the money. Make it funny Extend the line to its limit, re-engineer Credit - the very concept of it, cash itself Banking and fractions and things which sound Easy - sleazy, make it uppey as we go. They All said it was correct, sounds about right That it was so and thus, being US, we know Us is untied, our tether-stone lode lost No longer, in the realm of Obama we all bow Before we vomit. Wasn't it You who stole The gold of Cherokee and Shy Ann aboriginal America You are a phantom, imaginative boss Us stated plainly, truth, the real deal RD Fediad and the ford, gae bolg belly-spear Nothing makes sense but US and THEM lives Robbed, flogged, manacled and shackled Founded US and them who no longer count Because, because s/he is working it out How to be a better word left in: America Us R U sell, brand, famous last wish, cake Candle and flame dim now it is time to ask What does Climate Change do for US, for ME ME ME, poor ole liddle i downtrod, America? U R U - who are you America and why steer Blodwyn so, make a wish and go, go, go now Or forever hold me in your arms and let love, simple us, no fuss, lead US to light A flag, buy some rope, ask of the bonfire What do you Love oh hot heated heart of am eric A Man with your face so cool, head So full of reality from TV NOW !! NOW !! America i think it is time to spend again Burn more carb, make more for US, US, ME The economy demands we blow up the past Turn oil top plastic, buy it sell it, love That plastic mirage, invent more Credit Debit da man, wimmin no longer shop but US, we, me you - can stock up with a fella Rock on America, make it sing of what is NOW america, you're a lady (i think) i Am Eric a man every second day and nights Divide into you and am Erica. i want To have yr babies, populate the planet With children of US and them, they can Make it happen. Show me the money America. Show me the effin cash, right effin now. This is serious poetry, not an effin joke. It was the time to make a stand
In a life of misapplied appallingness.

It was time to lend a hand
In the electro-realm of saint and sinner.

TV was what made the us in US who we are
Obama oh bam air, bam it real good, sink

That new deal woh er pickled in O’Leary
O’Reilly, O’Hare and O’Hara, cuz their aint

No one as American as Barack O’Bama. Camelot
Part II: The Uncheating Years. No Sleaze.

It was time to spend the money. Make it funny
Extend the line to its limit, re-engineer

Credit – the very concept of it, cash itself
Banking and fractions and things which sound

Easy – sleazy, make it uppey as we go. They
All said it was correct, sounds about right

That it was so and thus, being US, we know
Us is untied, our tether-stone lode lost

No longer, in the realm of Obama we all bow
Before we vomit. Wasn’t it You who stole

The gold of Cherokee and Shy Ann aboriginal
America You are a phantom, imaginative boss

Us stated plainly, truth, the real deal RD
Fediad and the ford, gae bolg belly-spear

Nothing makes sense but US and THEM lives
Robbed, flogged, manacled and shackled

Founded US and them who no longer count
Because, because s/he is working it out

How to be a better word left in: America
Us R U sell, brand, famous last wish, cake

Candle and flame dim now it is time to ask
What does Climate Change do for US, for ME

ME ME, poor ole liddle i downtrod, America?
U R U – who are you America and why steer

Blodwyn so, make a wish and go, go, go now
Or forever hold me in your arms and let

love, simple us, no fuss, lead US to light
A flag, buy some rope, ask of the bonfire

What do you Love oh hot heated heart of am
eric A Man with your face so cool, head

So full of reality from TV NOW !! NOW !!
America i think it is time to spend again

Burn more carb, make more for US, US, ME
The economy demands we blow up the past

Turn oil top plastic, buy it sell it, love
That plastic mirage, invent more Credit

Debit da man, wimmin no longer shop but
US, we, me you – can stock up with a fella

Rock on America, make it sing of what is
NOW america, you’re a lady (i think) i Am

Eric a man every second day and nights
Divide into you and am Erica. i want

To have yr babies, populate the planet
With children of US and them, they can

Make it happen. Show me the money America.
Show me the effin cash, right effin now.

This is serious poetry, not an effin joke.
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]]> By: Miriam Levine http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9304 Miriam Levine Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:52:41 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9304 Lovely lilt of absurdity! Lovely lilt of absurdity!
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]]> By: Don Share http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2009/04/dyslexicon/#comment-9294 Don Share Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:04:02 +0000 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/?p=2169#comment-9294 Bravo!! Bravo!!
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