tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497322508801641126.post7747612298306888655..comments2023-06-05T00:31:26.650-07:00Comments on THE EFFECT OF SMALL ANIMALS: NO RED AND FAKE POETSLizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08380108868833110610noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497322508801641126.post-8760828608003831582011-03-20T14:28:37.710-07:002011-03-20T14:28:37.710-07:00K--The mouse even looks a little like WW, round an...K--The mouse even looks a little like WW, round and gray and hairy.<br /><br />E--I would have flipped out too. What is life if you can't get excited about a subject that almost everybody considers boring? You are not almost everybody.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08380108868833110610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497322508801641126.post-4685571554246026242011-03-19T10:21:39.444-07:002011-03-19T10:21:39.444-07:00I've told this story many times, but not here:...I've told this story many times, but not here: I once went on a date with a guy who told me he had a cousin who's a poet. I thought, Yeah, great, don't we all. A week or so later I went to a BBQ at his house and saw a copy of the journal NO in his shelf, and he said, "Oh, that's my cousin's journal." His cousin was BEN LERNER. I FLIPPED OUT. Flipped out a little too hard, I think -- I never saw him again.Elisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270808520581466353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497322508801641126.post-25094879345465787842011-03-18T16:42:48.141-07:002011-03-18T16:42:48.141-07:00That mouse was Walt Whitman, practically, not bein...That mouse was Walt Whitman, practically, not being lazy, but being *poetic*. Check it out: "I loaf and invite my soul,/<br />I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." Soak up "Song of Myself," mouse family.Kathleen Rooneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03451458434006516604noreply@blogger.com