Yahtzee Roll #3: Fill #3: The Silence of the Lambs: Gen

Title: Gamy
Prompt: gamy
Fandom: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rating: Gen
No. of lines: 14
Poetic form: Italian sonnet

from a pool of warriors, one lot is drawn
to slay the slayer, twisted and stunted,
predator and prey, hunter and hunted,
engage in a test of nerve, smarts, and brawn,
each piece is double-sided, so queen/pawn
proceeds though path blind and compass blunted
and guide, evil only briefly shunted
toward nightmare which breaks on bloody dawn

raw fear is a salt used by very few
its tang known by most in form spare and mild,
but the mad chef has a lamb to tame, he
sprinkles it liberally and turns into
an apex threat uncaged, hungry, and wild,
enjoying a kill which tastes rather gamy

Poet's Corner: Mingus at the Show Place by William Matthews

This also ties in with yesterday's jazz post.

I was asked by goodbyebird in 5 questions as part of the 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth celebration if I'd come across a poet (new to me) I liked, and so I set out to find one and I enjoy this poet William Matthews. Unfortunately, I can't find cut-and-pastable versions but the other poems I liked are Last Words and A Telegram from the Muse.
 
Mingus at the Show Place by William Matthews

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen,
and so I swung into action and wrote a poem,

and it was miserable, for that was how I thought
poetry worked: you digested experience and shat

literature. It was 1960 at The Showplace, long since
defunct, on West 4th St., and I sat at the bar,

casting beer money from a thin reel of ones,
the kid in the city, big ears like a puppy.

And I knew Mingus was a genius. I knew two
other things, but they were wrong, as it happened.

So I made him look at the poem.
“There’s a lot of that going around,” he said,

and Sweet Baby Jesus he was right. He laughed
amiably. He didn’t look as if he thought

bad poems were dangerous, the way some poets do.
If they were baseball executives they’d plot

to destroy sandlots everywhere so that the game
could be saved from children. Of course later

that night he fired his pianist in mid-number
and flurried him from the stand.

“We’ve suffered a diminuendo in personnel,”
he explained, and the band played on.

3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth Day 6

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the comm of the day is...100words!

A multi-fandom fic comm, fills are 100 words exactly, prompts go up Tuesdays (so today!) and every 10th week is an amnesty for all past prompts (and it's on #391!).

This week's prompt is...map. And I did a BBC Sherlock drabble [No signal].

The State of the Ficcery: April 2024

April Word Count: 30, 089

Having a regularly weekly updating soap opera is helping with the number.

Reading: debriswoman and I had a book club of two, reading How to be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane, which was very enlightening with regard practice and also informative about the practical world of publishing. I also read 2 Poirot Agatha Christies [Hickory, Dickory, Dock and Dead Man's Folly]. I have also been listening to a lot of audibooks courtesy of Youtube. The copyright enforcement of Youtube, however, sometimes means that they get taken down overnight before I've finished. But more pop up (like mushrooms). I listened to the first 4 Gervase Fen books by Edmund Crispin and now am on my second John Rhode book. (Golden Age of Crime detective novels). Plugging away at the Bingo.

Poetry: My goal was to write 10 poems and I succeeded (just barely). I did 9 for GYWO Yahtzee fills and 1 related to honkaku and shin honkaku for my Fannish 50. I posted works by 12 poets. Good enough! I will keep going on. Every month is poetry month for the poet, but I feel I made a solid observance.

Writing: One fill for Dick or treat. Updated my BTS animal hybrid AU. 2 fills for Spring Renewal. 4 Friday updates of my soap opera (which is called Ungrateful).

Crafting: 2 cards. 5 spreads. I finished Minor's cross stitch.

Personal: Went to SUGA the movie and made 24 treat bags for that. I have almost (ALMOST!) lost 10 lbs since 1 Jan. Of course, it's a drop in the lard bucket but it's not nothing. I do intermittent fasting. I try to do 10-14 most days with a longer fast 1 day a week. I have been doing Yoga with Adriene 4 days of the week. I found that if I propose to do it on my own (like sun salutations or a flow) it doesn't happen, so for now I am sticking to Adriene.

What's up for May: I have plenty to read. I have TBR books which would fill at least 2 more squares, and an idea for a third square. Keep going with the Yahtzee fills & my BTS Omegaverse soap opera & the Dick or Treat fills and Fannish 50 posts & 3 Weeks 4 Dreamwidth posts. I am running the relay 10k with Minor on Sunday so I've been training for that. I tend to be a kind of slug between my birthday and Mother's Day 6 May to 12 May. For my birthday, I've asked for the glass door to be cleaned and for Mother's Day for my car to be vaccumed. And I bought myself a ton of stickers so I hope to spend most my week collaging. I also have 2 kits I didn't do during Spring Break and a mystery puzzle about 50% completed.

Minor has soccer practices and games. Minisculus has soccer practice and games. Minor has track practices and meets. Minor also has choral events. Minisculus has swimming lessons. And Minisculus' school has its Spring Fair. It's also field trip season :)