I pack punch like a third grade field trip

[trochee]

The Seattle poetry slam last night was so much fun. Loud and full, and a late start, which made me (and imtboo, I think) feel old. But the energy, the willingness to share the thoughts spilling one after another fast enough to hear the rhythm and feel the flow but too fast to absorb it all with the intellect!

And don't think it was only for the artsy types: the winner of the night's slam [ETA: jeremyrichards] performed "Shakespeare gets hooked on 8-bit Nintendo" for his opener, which included the Mario-classic spring to the air among Elizabethan injunctions against Bowser's wrath. [One judge sitting not far from me gave it a befuddling 5.0/10, surprising her entire table (and me) . "You must never have played Nintendo," I said. Indeed; she was born after the obsolescence of the NES.]

amazing. I think we'll be going back.
[the title is a line from Matt Gano, the featured poet.]

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

your capacity to remember sentences is astounding.
i love you.
it was fun. let us go back.

two degrees of lapsedmodernist

[jeremyrichards.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the insight into that confounding score. If those two 5's weren't from the girls sitting together, then I may have really overestimated the resonance of Mario ...

Re: two degrees of lapsedmodernist

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hah. awesome that you're here, and how cool that you found this review. yes, i think that table had two judging placards and they were too young to have done their Mario catechism properly.

I look forward to seeing you at future slams!

Re: two degrees of lapsedmodernist

[jeremyrichards.livejournal.com]

Right on. Just so it doesn't appear that I'm constantly googling the titles of my poems, I was directed to your post by our mutual friend here

Re: two degrees of lapsedmodernist

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't blame you if you were googling -- I'd want to know who's ripping off my poetry, and "William Shakespeare gets hooked on 8-bit Nintendo" strikes me as an easy one to google.

But -- as I'd guessed -- it was from lapsedmodernist herself. small world!