Grace Notes @ Snarkattack

I was talking to a friend’s boyfriend the other day who did once write poetry and he asked me “What do you write about?”.

I always find this really difficult to answer. Yea eloquence fail.

So…I thought I’d do a summary of what I’ve written so far this year:

- just this morning, I wrote a poem about plums. Largely inspired by slivovitz and this William Carlos Williams poem
- a poem about a dead moth, this one in particular
- a poem inspired by the sociological theory called Dunbar’s number
- a Richard Brautigan three-liner about cafe lattes
- a verse novel one about another drunk night at a tavern

Non-poetry-wise, blogging, semi-reviewing and fervently recording my dreams. People with problems have weird dreams. At the moment I seem to be hellbent on reviewing just about everything. This is a little silly.

As stupid as it sounds, I do often put a bit of effort into my tweets. Yes, I realise this is inanity at its best. However, it’s a challenge – some people have a skill for making the inane sound really, really interesting (a constant work in progress on my part).

Compare “waiting to have a haircut” to “waiting at the doctor’s and the magazines tell me Hillary Clinton is our only hope”. The latter tweet was from Neil Gaiman, and made well after Obama was inaugurated. Guess if you can write, even your microblogging seems awesome.