habemus poetam laureatam (The accidental poet)

[Laurel and Rick]

Dear Florian and all those who sticky dotted my "accidental" poem,

I'm honoured, I'm stunned, I'm thrilled, but mostly I'm FRIGHTENED! :-O
Yikes!  How will I ever begin to fill the shoes of my most exalted and
extremely literate predecessors?  The answer is, I won't.  But I'll do my
very best to produce poetic pieces plied with pathos, irony and wit . . .
and, hey! I can always blame my pathetic, poetic pranks on my mis-firing
synapses.

Thankyou [curtsy, bow, flourish].  :-)  :-)  :-)

Laurel.


----- Original Message -----
From: "florian fischer" <florianfischer at ff-wey.com>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:36 AM
Subject: habemus poetam laureatam


> dear friends of poetry,
>
> thanks to all of you who had been taking part
> by writing, by reading, by voting
> in the actual semiannual oslist poetry contest.
>
> it had been a great honour and
> a pleasure as well for me to hold space
> in an ongoing process that had been
> started from our dear ralph copleman, followed
> by chris corrigan, chris weaver, jeff aitken and myself.
>
> to let it go further on I announce:
> the remarkable quantity of 165 virtual sticky dots
> widely spread over 27 possibilities of writing about
> "5 objects in the space within my sight".
> 11 virtual stickydots on #26
> as the highest single quantity on a poem let us know
> that we want  +++++++++++ laurel doersam
> to be our poet laureate for the next season from today on
>
> dear laurel,
> let me sing again your poem
> "the space in my sight glancing into a mirror"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>            I've turned into a Rennaissance painting!
>            Picture this:
>            an extra thirty pounds adorns my thighs and torso,
>            my eyes are Mona Lisa-esque
>            (read that "no lashes or brows")
>            the only thing missing is the long, flowing tresses.
>            I do, however, have a very short,
>            snappy wig interwoven with a passle of white hairs -
>            it's quite a good rug, but ITCHY.  I'm still quite startled
>            every time I inadvertently glance into a mirror.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> now laurel, please, take the talking stick yourself, as poet laureate.
>
> the gift you´ll get from me as the past poet laureate
> is a special edition of my recently published book
> "des esels zweites ohr -- lesezeichen zu identitaet und wandel"
> which had got an award as
> "one of the most beautiful german books of the year 2001"
> it´s german, which wouldn´t work for you. therefore
> I produced especially for you an empty version with the original
> cover-design. space for poetry.
>
> florian
>
> florian fischer
> begleitung im wandel
> D 10779 berlin, muenchener 6
> fon 0049.30. 2116752
> fax 0049.30. 2115943
> florianfischer at ff-wey.com
>
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