04 April 2006

i want to be an acorn
i want to be a library ink-jet printer
i want to be a blue mochila
i want to be a pocket note book
i want to be a vending machine bag of pretzels
i want to be a mouse
i want to be a colonial fleet viper
i want to be lost kitten flyer
i want to be a photo album
i want to be a DVD set commentary track
i want to be a crack in the pavement
i want to be a pair of slippers
i want to be a myspace profile
i want to be a mac computer
i want to be a banned poem
i want to be a thumbtack in a bulletin board
i want to be an unabridged dictionary
i want to be a pool diving board
i want to be a spyglass
i want to be a black manual typewriter
i want to be a post it note
i want to be a signpost on the Champs Elysées
i want to be an autumn sweater
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ehammelshaver said...

these are awesome. this form is so cool - it seems restricted until small differences are found 'your' instead of 'a' or even 'an' instead of 'a' - are we finding what we want to be, or finding the pieces that make us up that we already are?
i'm so going to write one.

4/4/06 1:52 PM
silverline said...

finding the pieces we are or want to be?
i think its part of both...
the "i want to be" implies something lacking within the author themself a wish childlike of something outside of them that they could be but the choices that are made implicitly show tendencies of the person writing it...
steve had the most city imagry
emily the most water images (i would like to say summer also)
& i computory things mostly

we are woven in there.

4/4/06 10:49 PM
Stephen Imperato said...

sometimes, our wishes tell us more about what we are than what we arent. the motif of this form, as i concieved of it, was candles on a birthday cake and wishes as you blow them out (extraordinarily corny, i know). i dont know how you guys did birthdays when your were younger, but i've always had a candle for each year and then one "to grow on." it comes out to 22 for me. also, as i was writing it, i consciously avoided naming things that were alive. i didnt say that i wanted to be any plants or animals or different people. i named purely things, which i think was an ironic touch.

5/4/06 1:18 AM
Stephen Imperato said...

this one has some interesting inclusions of life.
acorn - the essence of potential
mouse - small, insignificant, sometimes unwanted
lost kitten flyer - kittens are cute; lost kittens are sad

and then there are some really interesting elements of human life in here.
a photo album - implies memories
myspace profile - the personal projected into the public
banned poem - why the hell do people ban literature?
post-it note - personal wierdness to the nth degree

these poems are FILLED with fun little implications. i am so proud of myself right now.

5/4/06 1:28 AM
Stephen Imperato said...

its Champs Elysées.

5/4/06 3:08 AM

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