Play For Today: Hook, Line and Sinker
13 January 2009 | 10:57 PM
Tonight’s opus is remarkable for at least one thing – I was able to get cracking on it before the wee, small hours of the night for a change. To be fair, it’s really just a snippet of some disastrously bad poetry I wrote over the summer, my hope being that a critical trimming of the fat will upgrade it from “disastrous” to “wincingly bad”. Progress is progress, people: don’t knock it!
BaitI think about those fishing boats
(you know the ones)
who set out on vast, unending seas
in search of one catch or another.
The ocean is so big,
their trawlers and nets so small,
yet experience and instinct tell them
where they should look for their prize, and
what they should offer as bait.I think about them and realize
I am a terrible fisherman.
The thing is, I appreciate poetry (and art in general) which can be taken any number of ways, in any number of contexts, but that’s a skill I have yet to cultivate. I am, as it turns out, only proficient in the art of single entendre.
Posted by Andy in Play For Today