Look Who Else Failed the Blake Test...

December 14, 2004

Do you believe this garbage? It “says nothing to me about my life” (the “Morrissey Test”) –- and it doesn't even rhyme! I would never buy this in a book:

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/

This one doesn't rhyme or scan -- what a load of horse poopy! What did Rob Grenier write about singing from the diaphragm? We should send this guy back to Argentina! Send all of them back!

http://www.sculpture.org.uk/

This one doesn’t even appear to be in American. It’s just numbers! And what is a “Carlo” anyway??? And why "Dill"? Modernism hasn’t been any good in twenty years. Something there is that doesn’t wub-a-dub:

http://www.usc.edu/

What is this, some kind of f*cking joke? I don't even think he wrote this! Olson would sue! Rachel Blau DuPlessis would sue! Google would sue! (I had to use my back button to get out of this one.)

http://s.p.a.m.free.fr/

Maybe this whole poetry thing isn't for me after all. I think I'll stick to pointing video cameras at skyscrapers and playing my iPod too loud in church. It’s all so confusing, so... demanding -- if only Robert Lowell hadn’t ruined it all by putting his lines in a book!