Sestina Challenge: Where My Mama's Shoe?

Orson Wells as CitizenCain

2008-11-08 03:59:29 UTC

On 10/21/08, Leisha did Disturb The Restaurant at the End of the

Post one! Start the sestina thread, will you? Because I have to work
this morning, class this afternoon, I probably won't get back here
till tomorrow, and my sestina is embarrasingly bad.
Leisha
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Where My Mama's Shoe?
On Tuesday, the spider, in despair,

= snippage =

Any spider subjected to the likes of you would weave a suicide note into the
web and then hang itself.

-Will Dockery

Well done, Will. I particularly like the third lines in the first two

"King me, dark solace." and
night hits like a shoe.

Leisha

Thanks, Leisha.

I'm finding the sestina works perfectly for coffeeshop sketching,

What the fuck is "coffeeshop sketching?" That sounds like it would translate
to you going to Starbucks and scribbling on a napkin.

come

up with six words and phrases,

Here's six words for you: Douchebag. Idiot. Numbskull. Egotist. Narcisstic.
Unwashed.

and attempt to develop the story from

there. I almost finished another one a couple of hours ago, so i have
three more. The discussion around me, the folks at the table and the
waitress (who might as well just sit down with us!),

My guess is she was trying to give you a hint and see if you were going to
move on or not. Her salary depends on tips, douchebag. You're sitting there
depriving her of up to four or more possibilities for tips. It's not like
YOU can afford to leave one. A poem does NOT count as a tip -- and hopefully
she spit in your coffee before you left.

was again
floating on sonnets- so maybe they'll show up here and join that
thread of yours... stranger things have happened.

Like you being able to read past a first grade level?

Over the weekend, I intend to focus on turning out a villanelle
(whichever spelling is decided upon) or two.

Over the weekend you should be looking for a fucking JOB you deadbeat.

Also, I enjoyed an Ezra Pound sestine in a poetry book I borrowed from
a friend who began looking at the sestina form because of all the
recent publicity they've recieved locally. If it turns out to be
online somewhere I'll post it here.

Please don't.

Pound's six words were so great, and somehow appropriate for the
moment, I was very tempted to use them myself

Plagarism. No surprise coming from Dockery.