ask unregistered

aww, that could go well, depends v much on line 2, maybe you could do an ex libris thing and suggest 5 different options

i too wrote loads of poetry (and dyson'd with death) in younger days but all my writing (poetry or otherwise) nowadays feeds into the novel i'm writing, currently 150,000 words deep & counting :/ thanks for the nice words!

i thought you might write based on your brilliant posting here - as much the wit and intelligence displayed as the prose style. 'after you brush' sequence ffs, comic novel on my desk in 5 months pls

nah, I was a staunch classicist as a teenager (I despised free verse & once had a heated argument in English class about WCW's Red Wheelbarrow — 'I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish with this piece, but it definitely isn't a poem) so my sole concession to modernity in that particular sonnet was a nonce rhyme scheme. but I do like the idea of remixing/revising one's old high school poetry inna oulipo style.

fyi I would definitely read/buy a 150,000+-word imago novel! and if you feel bashful about sharing it with ilx, just post it piecemeal on the 'posts you had second thought about' thread and hardly anybody will catch on.

[I hereby assert my copyright over the 'after you brush' sequence and all derivative publications]

nonce rhyming scheme

this kind of nonce:http://www.unsplendid.com/noncedef_frames.htm

but uh apparently 'nonce' has a very interesting colloquial meaning in the UK that I wasn't aware of until just now :-/

I enjoyed a fleeting meander on what such a scheme might entail tbf

lol

I was a classicist too tbh, balked at even the notion of blank verse, although I did come up with some fairly elaborate rhyme schemes. very formalist, very classic prog

now I'm less that, more screaming avant-garde mess with increasingly rare motes of substantive form, and all's the better. novel is like maybe two-thirds complete if that so it will be a while longer before I post the whole thing, IF I post the whole thing

unreg you have a wodehousean knack for the right detail & I feel there is genuine lit mileage in this

my next question is whether u r ilx buddies with ogmor because you both seem into the same type of roots folk & blues

Ogmor is a good poster! but I can't remember ever having crossed paths with him on ilx, hmmmm

Happy birthday!

thanks!

happy birthday! :)

wd flense a piece of cake for you

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awwww, thanks

one of the all-time best posters. Love yr threads. Happy b-day!

delightful unregistered!

are you getting a free slurpee today?

thx everyone! I live about 10 miles away from the nearest 7-Eleven & I didn't pass any while driving today, so no slurpee this year.

(I'm still slightly bitter @ 7-Eleven because I used to think Slurpee Day was limited to customers born on July 11, but it turns out any pleb with a May 20 birthdate can get a free one as long as they show up on the right day. I don't really need 7-Eleven to reaffirm my special-snowflakeness, but it would be a nice gesture)