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November 22, 2005
Insomniac Poetry (Discourse Chronicle)
"Philosophical Poetic Polemic" by Joshua Butcher
Snippets of time snatch quality space,
Space and time, one Hegel-of-a Kantinuum.
Plato with play dough fashioned the Forms,
Oh bother, said Aristotle, what’s the Matter?
Then Aquinas went medieval on his class[(re)(ifications)]!
But let us not forget that saintly sex-crazed monk,
Who brought us an august catholic confessional.
I back and Thou forth, merry go we round,
Swing pendulum swing, slip up, slide down,
Its all this, its all that, Sisyphus climbs up to your lap,
And ponder this sitting and setting of System,
Drink deep of the swell, of the Spirit, of the Agon,
Polemical dialectics of Kierkegaardian proportion,
Heidegger you dig her we dig her now (but only just),
Shall we slip and elide the Lacanian subject,
And pass on to go by the power of Foucault?
If the Idea is an ideal conjunction junction,
Can faithless Form lead to full-bodied function?
It all pell-mell to gorgeous Gorgias going, going, goes,
And anything goes; those running with feet, on their toes.
And (Dar)rida I leave out, so many dear de—parted friends,
I trust they are forever so clever: just means to dead ends.
[Josh is a colleague of mine from the Communication department who allowed me to post his poems here. He shared this and another one in Rhetoric and Poetics a few weeks ago. It brought me to tears from laughing so hard. BK]
Posted by kuechebj at November 22, 2005 12:20 AM
Comments
Thanks for thinking of me Bobby, that is kind of you. I was mostly feigning with my origianl comment about feeling exposed. I am sure most people have their ways of relaxing and getting their creative juices flowing. I don't really mind others knowing about my unorthodox methods. :)
Posted by: Joshua at November 25, 2005 05:56 PM
Josh, after thinking about your comment some more, I revised my annotation of this post and dropped the explanation you shared in class.
Posted by: Bobby Kuechenmeister at November 23, 2005 02:23 PM
Nah! We all have quirks about ourselves, Josh. For instance, I did claim spending at least $300 on DC Comics, which is certainly more information than anyone needed to know about me =)
Posted by: Bobby Kuechenmeister at November 22, 2005 11:37 PM
I feel so exposed. I fear my "scholarliness meter" is in the red.
Posted by: Joshua at November 22, 2005 10:58 PM