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I Wrote A Good Omelet

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The most wonderful indarkmoon mentioned last week that Nikki Giovanni's poem "I Wrote A Good Omelet" was nice, and she was so, so, so correct. Here it is:

 

I Wrote A Good Omelet

 

I wrote a good omelet...and ate

a hot poem... after loving you

 

Buttoned my car...and drove my

coat home...in the rain...

after loving you

 

I goed on red...and stopped on

green...floating somewhere in between...

being here and being there...

after loving you

 

I rolled my bed...turned down

my hair...slightly

confused but...I don't care...

 

Laid out my teeth...and gargled my

gown...then I stood

...and laid me down...

 

To sleep...

after loving you

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It is a lovely poem, but I wasn't the one who suggested it :P

 

I'm generally not much into poetry, with the exception of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the mind" (It's a short book of poems, and it's *beautiful*) Look that up next!

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Wonderful poem! Being all angsty and gothy, though, I can't help but read this as an accusation too.

 

"You messed me up the the head! I'm all backwards! After loving you!"

 

:P OK, that might be more sleep deprivation than anything.

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It is a lovely poem, but I wasn't the one who suggested it :P

 

I'm generally not much into poetry, with the exception of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the mind" (It's a short book of poems, and it's *beautiful*) Look that up next!

 

Yes, I corrected it to indarkmoon! Duh!

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Wonderful poem! Being all angsty and gothy, though, I can't help but read this as an accusation too.

 

"You messed me up the the head! I'm all backwards! After loving you!"

 

:P OK, that might be more sleep deprivation than anything.

 

No, I agree... it could either mean that she felt so great afterwards that she was utterly discombobulated with post-coital bliss, or that he dumped her (and thus, the "after loving you") and she went totally crazy.

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I am so glad you liked that one too. Seriously. Some good lovin can turn you all inside out and upside down. Make you feel like your heart is beating from outside your chest...beating it's way squishily all the way down the sidewalk and you have to chase it down and stuff it back in!

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I am so glad you liked that one too. Seriously. Some good lovin can turn you all inside out and upside down. Make you feel like your heart is beating from outside your chest...beating it's way squishily all the way down the sidewalk and you have to chase it down and stuff it back in!

 

Spoken like someone who's been there! ;) That's a good thing!!!

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