Do I suck as a human being because I take no time to create or write? Wait, don't answer that, or at least keep it to yourself. Here's something I wrote once that I like. Originally, I wrote it from the point of view of an 18 month-old girl, but I can accept it from my current point of view as well.
Word Play
I shall play with language I shall.
Language shall I play with.
Marbles. Warbles.
Shall language play with I?
With play shall I language.
I shall dream language with words.
Dream in words? No.
I shall dream.
I shall language.
I shall words.
Words, language shall dream.
Meaning shall words language.
Smile. Cackle. Squeal. Whine.
Blaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
I shall play with meaning.
I shall play I shall.
Word Play
I shall play with language I shall.
Language shall I play with.
Marbles. Warbles.
Shall language play with I?
With play shall I language.
I shall dream language with words.
Dream in words? No.
I shall dream.
I shall language.
I shall words.
Words, language shall dream.
Meaning shall words language.
Smile. Cackle. Squeal. Whine.
Blaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
I shall play with meaning.
I shall play I shall.
posted by Mike McAteer @ 11:25 AM
2 Comments:
At 9:35 PM ,
Anonymous said...
that is .. i really like it. what did it take to get to that point?
At 9:28 PM ,
Mike McAteer said...
Oddly enough, I have the exact freewrite exercise in one of my old notebooks. I was in a summer writing program and the freewrite prompt one morning was sleep. I also happened to be reading Ulysses and loved the way James Joyce played around with language. Plus, my daughter was just learning to speak, and loved to make sounds as much as she liked to make words. So I was just monkeying around and realized that some of what I was writing actually made sense. More than anything else, I suppose I was making a concerted effort to be playful.
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