So, rewriting the poems backwards seems like some sort of half-brained scheme you'd come with on an acid trip, but I'll have to agree with Loren: it does create this sense of excitement and ultimately is a great trick to reorder your thinking. Who thinks backwards? And in this case, it does create a new urgency and somehow still retains almost the exact same meaning.
wanderings:
these mind stoppings.
there's no sister, sister,
they say sobbing
hot, mouth, stalking
talk to,
easy to?
youre so
youre so.
seems that,
that it,
it's just.
they say:sexual.
It's not.
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ReplyDeleteTHat's the thing about a lot of re-ordering/ experimental exercises--they seem, at first (at least they did to me) kinda like lame cop-outs, and represent a lack of creativity on the writer's part. But...really, it seems now that a large part of the creativity and the cutting-edge-ness of doing artistic anything is the willingness to do something (sometimes simple/ "stupid") that fucks it all up. Learning to say "why not?" is my big thing lately, so, like a toddler, I have been repeating my new words endlessly. It feels so nice and freeing though, after being in workshops--and especially OURS, which...well you guys remember it well enough.
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