Poetry Pure …?
You decide. But you should have the visuals with this one, so find a computer that lets you press play and learn the deeper secrets of Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter”~
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
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June 15th, 2007 at 3:24 am eoh, amy–this is hilarious. when he said “make me fries,” i almost lost it.
June 15th, 2007 at 5:30 am eevery time i watch it, i believe it more:
i see poor boys / potato wave! can you see dems? on a carmine unaware –
good stuff.
June 15th, 2007 at 2:36 pm e*Starts writing poem that begins with the lines, “I don’t want a whale/in a box or a bag.” *
June 15th, 2007 at 10:01 pm eOh yeah! That’s a good one.
Many are misheard, but that’s better even than louie, loui-i
June 15th, 2007 at 10:02 pm eYes, makes a peculiar amount of sense.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:29 pm eThat’s hilarious. Pearl Jam has to be one of the most misheard of all time. Now I can’t even remember what the real lyrics might be.
June 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pm eThanks for posting this–I’m smiling.