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another poetry festival set

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:12:00 +0000

so this collection is from a dodge poetry festival i went to when in high school...

"Many of us have have read in truckstops to three people eating pie." -- Naomi Shab Nye

"I wanted to write these tiny bullion cubes of a poem." -- Billy Collins

"If we had a smaller group we could go play bridge, have hot dogs together." -- Billy Collins (to group of 100s)

"Is it easier to write about your family, or someone you love? Freudian slip..." -- Mark Doty

"Has that revolving cake stand always been there? Or did someone install it while we were sitting here not saying anything?" -- Billy Collins

"Poetry is about discovery. Write about what you know, but turn it into what you don't know." -- some poet

i call it meticulous

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:10:00 +0000

"How casn you say you don't understand OCD? You're practically at ground zero!"
(to me)

yeah, not as fun as xmas

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:09:00 +0000

"I'd never want to be a jew, not eating all day and going over all the shit you did all year and shit."

my hs was 99% white

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:07:00 +0000

"There was this new kid in homeroom. He's black and he walks into this all white classroom and the teacher says, 'Hi, I'm Ms. White' (and we all shop at GAP)."

not sure what this refers to, but pretty sure i agree

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:07:00 +0000

"Adam and Eve were like a billion years before that, Hon. They made that shit up."

did you find it pleasurable?

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:06:00 +0000

"I also wrote a suicide note, but that was for pure literary pleasure."

there must have been some serious damage

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:05:00 +0000

"He hit a deer the size of Manhattan! Sorry, that was just the first big thing I could think of."

and it would be just like David to keep it perfectly still

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:04:00 +0000

"It would be just like Picasso to purposely wiggle his camera around while talking a picture."

I like bannana chips, so I'm thinking...

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:03:00 +0000

Me: Is there such thing as grape chips?
Mom: What about raisins?

i want one

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:02:00 +0000

"Kindergartners are flying around like their carpet swatches are flying saucers."

valuable lessons learned by cutting out paper plates

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:01:00 +0000

"I went into the bathroom and there was this kid in there cutting out a paper plate. He says, 'Oh, I was supposed to do this last night.'"

same thing always happens to be with cadbury eggs

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:00:00 +0000

"Oh shit! I swallowed it before I got to the honey part!"

yeah

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:58:00 +0000

"I don't know about you, but I don't think there's anything more obnoxious than a gnat."

i find this hyper-funny

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:58:00 +0000

"I'm hyper-early."

OMG guys, it's raining!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:58:00 +0000

"People love to act to severe weather like no one else knows."

just in case

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:57:00 +0000

"If I die, I want to be buried in New Orleans."

angst

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:56:00 +0000

HS Student 1: I don't want to be here.
HS Student 2: That's my life.

no rain & black as shit

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:54:00 +0000

Dad: It stopped raining here -- blue sky.
Me: Dad, it's night. It's black out.
Dad: What was I supposed to say? "Hey, it cleared up here -- black as shit." The moon's out, though.

this doesn't make all kinds of sense

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:54:00 +0000

"She wasn't arguing about scruples. That doesn't make all kinds of sense."

(I have no idea what this is in reference to, or why I still think it's funny.)

everything looks so fuzzy

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:53:00 +0000

"These are my glasses. Unfortunately, I put them in my pocket with an Emory board."

on reading

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Person who is okay: Nothing happened.
Person who is much cooler: What do you mean? Everything happened!

-- on Catcher in the Rye (or another classic novel?)

yeah, me too

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:51:00 +0000

"I was really pissed off when I grew up."

this is a funny thingy

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:49:00 +0000

"What the hell is that? We're supposed to have instant recall? There are so many nouns in this universe -- call it a 'thingy'!"

too insightful for you to actually be stupid

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:48:00 +0000

"Maybe I don't have ADD. Maybe I'm just stupid."

noreply@blogger.com (Maria) — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:47:00 +0000

While cleaning my room, I found a whole other collection of quotes from high school! I will put them up one by one, and hope I haven't done so already!