HBB Poetry Slam!
Readers suggested some housing bubble poetry. “Weekend topic suggestion: HBB Poetry Slam!”
A reply, “Z Originale Housing Bubble Blog Poem (from Feb ‘09). I am but a shock in succession, past its crest, screaming toward its solitary trauma. I am but a glass, futilely reflecting in heedless grace, spurned and hot. I am but a lie or worse, releasing its tendrils and blowing my kiss in mockery of wanting’s tricked embrace.”
Another had this, “Here’s my nominee:
Images……by Tyrone Green
Dark and lonely on a summer’s night
Kill my landlord, Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking; do he bite?
Kill my landlord, Kill my landlord
Slip in his window, break his neck
Then his house, I start to wreck.
Got no reason…..what the heck?
Kill my landlord. kill my landlord
C….I….L….L…..my land lord.
