Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Expo #12.2: Influence & Allusion

This Is Just To Say       
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold


Thos Os Jost To Soy
by Tom Kong

O hovo ooton
tho ploms
thot woro on
tho ocobox

ond whoch
yoo woro proboblo
sovong
for brookfost

Forgovo mo
thoy woro dolocooos
so swoot
ond so cold

Monday, March 2, 2009

Expo #12.1: Influence & Allusion

Transposed Hamlet
by Kenneth Koch


(HAMLET, wearing avant-garde clothes.)

HAMLET.

Tube heat, or nog tube heat: data's congestion.
Ladder tricks snow blur Hindu mine dew sulphur
Tea slinks end harrows have ow! Cages portion
Orc tube rake harms hay canst a Z oeuf bubbles
Ant ply cop posy kingdom.

(He goes crazy.)


Kenneth Koch, "Transposed Hamlet," One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (1988).