Tuesday, 2:30 p.m.
Introducing Louis Jenkins and his prose-poems, Bill Holm said, "You can say whatever you want in a rectangle."
And after the introduction, Louis Jenkins said, "Now I'm burdened with being funny...."
"Iron lacks delicacy," he said, "but does not lack courage...."
"The mosquito is so worried about the pursuit of blood it neglects the long-range plan...."
"There's a lot of running and flapping involved and, as you get older, a lot more huffing and puffing...."
"Just before the divorce was final, as he was moving into a little apartment, his wife said, 'Take your god-damn fish.'"
"No one for five miles down the beach, just the way I like it...."
"So here's what I'm thinking: wouldn't it be great if one of them dropped a big roll of hundred dollar bills, and I found it...."
"Should I wake the others and say 'I've got a mattress tag attached to my back?'"
"She talked about the problems of coffee growers in South America. He listened. And he thought about kissing her on the neck, too...."
"Think of your poem being pulled ashore in Davenport...."
"Night after night the same moon rises. It hasn't been easy for the moon...."
"I've been thinking of selling the poetry business and retiring. It's a prose-poem business, so it's a niche market.... Maybe I'll walk around and look at things with no compulsion to say anything about them...."
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