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And so with a mighty bonk did Fflo let go
A swing at the speeding ball did fall
Against the furious breeze to trees
To score a big home run for fun

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Well I did get ahold of a few dingers, by our definition for the day, but the picture is, indeed, as

shmizla pegged it below,

bigfinedaddy.

I like your rhyme scheme. 'Tweren't much breeze, by the by, in the fact of that afternoon, but 'breeze' and 'trees' are right up there with 'Sodom' and 'bottom,' you know?

Home runs are fascist, and power corrupts, but it is fun to hit the ball a long way.

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Home runs stand for fascism, foul balls are insincere, and the outfielders are kindly but they're dumb.
Quarterbacks are skeptical of changes in their cages, And the goalkeeper is very fond of rum.
Forwards are reactionaries, referees are missionaries, umpires plot in secrecy,
and catchers turn on frequently. What a gas! You gotta come and see at the game.

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So you DO use psychedelics, P! And you claim such sobriety.

Or could it really come naturally to you?

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Wait--you mean it doesn't come naturally to you?

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all TOO naturally, Pete!

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Oh, dear. I mentioned that home runs are fascist on #filkhaven, and now the songwriters are all ruminating on the words "Babe Hitler." And the Loisville Panzers. I did not mean any harm. Honest.

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let us not forget that there are fascisms a-plenty, outside the nazis

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isn't this our good old BFD?? nice form!

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yep, it's her---and nice form indeedy! i'm flattered if peter thought 'twas me.

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well, ya two grand ol' ladies are both about good form, n'est-ce pas?

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we are?

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but of course! good banter is for formalists. [that should be a t-shirt:]

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isn't 'formalist' a dirty word?

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hell no! i mean, provided you're a good one.

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i guess that's the dividing line with a lot of those thingies, hunh

:)

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s'pose it is! you could be a good historicist-formalist. those are the best kind.

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what about being ahistorical? i've seen that one flung around. didn't look good. pretty sure, after your report from up north, that i don't want to be a womanist feminist.

tell me about historicist-formalists. or historicism-formalism.

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that's like me :). or like anyone else who thinks about form, but also thinks about what form meant in a certain historical period.

so, for example, how it feels "natural" for history to be in prose, although it need not be. how it used to be "natural" to read poetry, and not so any longer. how we now think that narrative is incompatible with verse, and that certainly wasn't true 200 years ago.

verse was the way to do narrative among the "classics," especially if you wanted anyone to remember the story, because rhyme is a mnemonic device, after all.

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i think i'm following you here.

you remind me of this book i made the library buy, and have at home now (with no competition---i've been able to renew it) --- Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. night before last i read/watched the chapter on what a "line" is. this burgeoning poetics is kind of exciting to me. and there's this new slam-y ASL poetry going on now, a couple of samples of which rather tickled my fancy. though ella mae lentz's "silence oh painful" had me going through in slo-mo trying to get at individual signs (that was one of the ones with no subtitles, and even though it's simple and she's one of those classic here-you-go-you-hearing-newbie signers, i don't understand so much).

anyway... must back to work & not a good time to try to get into it, or even get my head back to that stuff. but prose v. poetry, fer instance, is kind of a laugh in signed "liter"ature.

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this sounds very cool. i'd be curious to know what a "line" is in that kind of visual.

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well, nobody knows. they're just thinking about it so far.

i was a bit disappointed that wm carlos w's "a line is a unit of attention" idea didn't make it into the what-hearing-writers-have-said part. seems like that one might translate.

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it does indeed. wonder what people who use asl think about the categories used to describe the language, it they think they could come up with better ones. if their language is not just a language.

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ahistoricist=really bad.

that's about people who don't remember what happened, especially if it happened to others. if it happened to them, they pretend not to remember, because they "move on" (as they are encouraged to do).

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ah... no wonder i'm confused

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but of course--you're supposed to know history, but only the permitted kind. as soon as you remember anything that doesn't fit, we have to think about whether we like that or not.

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worse, i read you wrong before & thought ahistorical good, ahistoricist bad. ha!

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womanist feminist = the feminist who thinks that women have the special "sense" for injustice because they are women. the implication is that all women have the same interests and the same troubles and the same goals.

this we know (historically, empirically) not to be true.

this is also why the word "feminist," which was originally used by the white women of america, is not the most attractive one to, for instance, the women of color, because it conjures up that kind of women's movement that presumes to talk for everyone when it doesn't even know who's out there (or pretends not to know). but it's an attractive option if you want to "build communities" and try to sound inclusive; long-term, however, it's very fishy.

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The fact that you just referred to me as "our good old BFD" just made me grin from ear to ear.

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that is really good to hear, my friend

hey, and you have good form!

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oh, i'm so glad! :)

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Oh well, it seems that you are a jock after all. At least, I certainly don't hang around in cages of that sort.

In elementary school when we used to be forced to play those games, I always intentionally struck out. I did this intentionally because I could never remember whether first base was to the left or the right, and after you get beyond a certain age, teachers assume everyone knows that stuff already so they don't bother explaining it. A few times I bothered asking people while I was waiting for my turn at bat, but this resulted in such aghast reactions from my teammates that I soon figured out that it was much easier to just intentionally strike out all the time than to ask people or to take a guess and risk running the wrong direction.

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Hey! Batter, Batter!
Hey, Batter, Batter!
Hey! Batter! Batter!...
SWING!

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