What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

12/18
Sonnets From Other Lives: Padgett

Do you confuse your left from right or wrong?
Are there too many punctuation marks?
Could misremembered lyrics to a song
be like walking backwards in the dark?
What three things would you give up for love?
Have you ever spied on anyone?
Does your glove compartment contain any gloves?
How can I get paid for having fun?
Will anything you’ve done live after you?
Don’t you think that callipygian
is a word that’s too much underused?
How many times have you been ‘round the sun?
Really—is this any way to live?
Do you find my mood too interrogative?
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  1. P. A .HofmannDecember 18, 2010 at 11:08 PM

    I'm riffing on The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell--A Novel? 256 page book written in all (as far as I can tell) random questions. Brilliant (in small doses)

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  2. Dave FarkasDecember 20, 2010 at 9:00 PM

    Philip, I am IMPRESSED. You handle the sonnet form very gracefully. -- Dave Farkas (we met at Phil & Lisa's party last night).

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