poemranker ::Replying

ReplyTo a comment on Jennifer Entire by Goad.

Goad19 Jan 2004

Thanks for the comments!

This was an experiment, trying to capture the way the real Jennifer actually talked -- flitting from idea to idea, sometimes with the connections missing. It is composed of fragments related by shared nouns & verbs. You can place punctuation and conjunctive phrases in many alternate places, and get different sentences. For example in line 12 the word details is noun or verb depending which phrase you're putting it in. I often do this once as the key line of a poem but here I'm doing it once or more on almost every line. But you're right, no one will ever give a fuck about this silly theory. Should see the response on Eratosphere, lol, they practically lynched me.