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Monday, September 15, 2003
I just received the following email. (I've reprinted it unedited as a matter of historical record and as food for spam-bots.) My poem follows.
Fat Puppy
by Tomohiro Idokoro
A four letter word for snug friar,
third letter C.
The corgies next door bicker --
something about pills.
The bitch barks, "Hurry up."
Their fat boy sniffs along the fence between
our yards, as if trying to escape something.
I reach for a beebee gun in my mind, then tear open
a croissant of sympathy.
French doors slam shut.
Eleven down : cherubic borzoi,
eight letters, second letter A,
fifth letter T.
The garage rolls open, the Lexus
hums like an itch in my throat.
Car doors slam shut.
Fourteen across : Napolean complex
M-I-L-L-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E
Thy sky tips over like a fluted champagne glass, clouds
shatter like pieces of glass, light
spills across the lawn,
floods the veranda.
Will Sundays never cease?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Mitchell-Foust"
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: FW: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
>
> >From: "Gray Jacobik"
> >To: "Adele Leiblein",
> > "Aleida Rodriguez",
> > "Alexandra Burack",
> > "Alicia Ostriker",
> > "Alison Meyers",
> > "Allison J. Joseph",
> > "Anne Sheffield",
> > "Annie Finch",
> > "Arielle Greenberg",
> > "Audrey Fried ", "Barbara Hurd"
,
> > "Baron Wormser",
> > "Beverly Rainbolt",
> > "Billie Bolton",
> > "Bob & Anne Deppe",
> > "Bob & Anne Deppe",
> > "Brad Davis",
> > "Carol Potter",
> > "Carole Stasiowski",
> > "Catherine DeNunzio-Gabordi",
> > "Charles Chase",
> > "Charlotte Currier",
> > "Christopher Jane Corkery",
> > "Claire Keyes",
> > "Clare Rossini",
> > "Connie Voisine", "Cortney Davis"
> >,
> > "Constance Chambers",
> > "Curbstone", "Daisy Fried" ,
> > "David Anderson",
> > "David Weinstock",
> > "Debra Kang Dean", "Dick Allen"
> >,
> > "Donna Nicolino",
> > "Dzvinia Orlowsky",
> > "Ed Go", "Ed Ochester"
> >,
> > "Edwina A. Trentham",
> > "Eleanor Steele",
> > "Elizabeth Thomas",
> > "Ellen Dore Watson",
> > "Faith Vicinanza",
> > "Francine Sterle",
> > "Frank X. Gaspar",
> > "Gabrielle Zane", "George Drew"
,
> > "George Fouhy", "Gerry Connolly"
> >,
> > "Ginny Connors", "Hallie Moore"
> >,
> > "Honor Moore",
> > "Hugh Ogden",
> > "Ingrid Wendt", "James Cervantes"
> >,
> > "Jean Nordhaus",
> > "Jeff Mock",
> > "Jeffrey Harrison",
> > "Jeffrey Levine",
> > "Jennifer Militello",
> > "Jessica Wilson",
> > "Jim Coleman",
> > "Jim Finnegan", "Joan Sidney" ,
> > "John Guzlowski",
> > "Jon Andersen",
> > "Joseph Thomas",
> > "Jude Rittenhouse",
> > "Judith Johnson",
> > "Kate Rushin",
> > "Katherine Anderson",
> > "Kathy Fagan",
> > "Kaye McDonough",
> > "Leslie McGrath",
> > "Lisa Taylor",
> > "Maggie Greene", "Marilyn Kallet"
> >,
> > "Marta Boswell",
> > "Mary Ann C Larkin",
> > "Maurya Simon", ,
> > "Nancy Esposito",
> > "Nikki Moustaki",
> > "Palmer Hall",
> > "Pamela Harrison",
> > "Pamela Nomura",
> > "Patty Seyburn",
> > "Pete \(B.H.\) Fairchild",
> > "Pit Menousek Pinegar",
> > "Rachel Loden",
> > "Rebecca Seiferle",
> > "Renee Harlow", "Rennie McQuilken"
> >,
> > "Richard Flynn",
> > "Rick Pernod",
> > "Robert Cording",
> > "Robert Dana", "Robert Sargent" ,
> > "Rodger Martin",
> > "Sarah A Cortez",
> > "Scott Deshefy",
> > "Sheryll Bedingfield",
> > "Steve Straight",
> > "Sue Standing",
> > "Sue Ellen Thompson",
> > "Sunil Freeman", "Susan Finnegan"
,
> > "Victoria Rivas", "Wendy Battin"
,
> > "Wesley McNair",
> > "William Trowbridge"
> >Subject: FW: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:10:31 -0400
> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
> >Importance: Normal
> >X-Declude-Sender: gray@grayjacobik.com [204.60.203.69]
> >X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for
> >spam.
> >X-Spam-Tests-Failed: IPNOTINMX [0]
> >X-RCPT-TO:
> >
> >A mild protest you might actually have fun doing! Andrew Hudgins' idea.
> >
> >Gray
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: vppelizzon [mailto:vppelizzon@sbcglobal.net]
> >Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 2:21 PM
> >To: Jimmie Kimbrell; Gray Jacobik; Djoysgrape@aol.com; Charles Mahoney;
> >averillann4091@earthlink.net; Alexander Taylor; aaron sanders; Aaron
> >Bremyer; Sam Hamill; Marilyn Nelson; Cate Marvin; Jenny Spinner;
> >Margaret F Gibson; Anthony.Deaton@mail.uh.edu; wlamb01; Regina Barreca;
> >Rebecca Wolff; Holmberg, Karen
> >Subject: Fw: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> >
> >
> >Just got this from Andrew Hudgins and thought it was clever...
> >
> >
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 4:52 PM
> > > Subject: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Concerned Writers!
> > >
> > > In direct response to Calvin Trillin's poem "What
> > > Happened to Brie and Chablis," published in the Sept.
> > > 8th issue of the New Yorker, we here at FATPUPPY.ORG
> > > have been working hard to develop an appropriate
> > > response that critiques the sad quality of poetry
> > > being published in the New Yorker (not to mention the inappropriate
> > > placement of the poem in the center of an article about famine and
> > > hardship: "Letter from
> > > Korea: Alone in the Dark").
> > >
> > > So, here it is -- THE FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> > >
> > > To join us all you have to do is write a poem and send
> > > it to the New Yorker on Sept. 25th.
> > >
> > > Here are some basic guidelines.
> > >
> > > 1. The title must be Fat Puppy / or (alternately) Phat
> > > Puppy
> > > 2. The poem most include French doors, a veranda, and
> > > a description of light
> > > 3. There must be one word in French, untranslated.
> > > 4. There must be a heart-felt presentation of personal
> > > strife
> > > 5. Yes, a fluted champagne glass too
> > > (note: champagne can NOT count as your French word)
> > > 6. The poem must end on a "larger" question
> > > 7. Please do not spend more than 20 minutes composing
> > > your poem.
> > > 8. Feel free to use a pen name ;-)
> > >
> > > FWD this message to friends, send in your poem on the
> > > 25th and join 100s of concerned writers in this cause!
> > >
> > > Keep your eyes posted for more FATPUPPY updates!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Creative Writing Workshops and ESL Tutoring
> > > http://www.LaurieFilipelli.com
> > >
> > > __________________________________
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> >
> >---
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> >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> >Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003
> >
> >
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> >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> >Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003
> >
>
From: "Michelle Mitchell-Foust"
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 8:24 AM
Subject: Fwd: FW: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
>
> >From: "Gray Jacobik"
> >To: "Adele Leiblein"
> > "Aleida Rodriguez"
> > "Alexandra Burack"
> > "Alicia Ostriker"
> > "Alison Meyers"
> > "Allison J. Joseph"
> > "Anne Sheffield"
> > "Annie Finch"
> > "Arielle Greenberg"
> > "Audrey Fried "
> > "Baron Wormser"
> > "Beverly Rainbolt"
> > "Billie Bolton"
> > "Bob & Anne Deppe"
> > "Bob & Anne Deppe"
> > "Brad Davis"
> > "Carol Potter"
> > "Carole Stasiowski"
> > "Catherine DeNunzio-Gabordi"
> > "Charles Chase"
> > "Charlotte Currier"
> > "Christopher Jane Corkery"
> > "Claire Keyes"
> > "Clare Rossini"
> > "Connie Voisine"
> >
> > "Constance Chambers"
> > "Curbstone"
> > "David Anderson"
> > "David Weinstock"
> > "Debra Kang Dean"
> >
> > "Donna Nicolino"
> > "Dzvinia Orlowsky"
> > "Ed Go"
> >
> > "Edwina A. Trentham"
> > "Eleanor Steele"
> > "Elizabeth Thomas"
> > "Ellen Dore Watson"
> > "Faith Vicinanza"
> > "Francine Sterle"
> > "Frank X. Gaspar"
> > "Gabrielle Zane"
> > "George Fouhy"
> >
> > "Ginny Connors"
> >
> > "Honor Moore"
> > "Hugh Ogden"
> > "Ingrid Wendt"
> >
> > "Jean Nordhaus"
> > "Jeff Mock"
> > "Jeffrey Harrison"
> > "Jeffrey Levine"
> > "Jennifer Militello"
> > "Jessica Wilson"
> > "Jim Coleman"
> > "Jim Finnegan"
> > "John Guzlowski"
> > "Jon Andersen"
> > "Joseph Thomas"
> > "Jude Rittenhouse"
> > "Judith Johnson"
> > "Kate Rushin"
> > "Katherine Anderson"
> > "Kathy Fagan"
> > "Kaye McDonough"
> > "Leslie McGrath"
> > "Lisa Taylor"
> > "Maggie Greene"
> >
> > "Marta Boswell"
> > "Mary Ann C Larkin"
> > "Maurya Simon"
> > "Nancy Esposito"
> > "Nikki Moustaki"
> > "Palmer Hall"
> > "Pamela Harrison"
> > "Pamela Nomura"
> > "Patty Seyburn"
> > "Pete \(B.H.\) Fairchild"
> > "Pit Menousek Pinegar"
> > "Rachel Loden"
> > "Rebecca Seiferle"
> > "Renee Harlow"
> >
> > "Richard Flynn"
> > "Rick Pernod"
> > "Robert Cording"
> > "Robert Dana"
> > "Rodger Martin"
> > "Sarah A Cortez"
> > "Scott Deshefy"
> > "Sheryll Bedingfield"
> > "Steve Straight"
> > "Sue Standing"
> > "Sue Ellen Thompson"
> > "Sunil Freeman"
> > "Victoria Rivas"
> > "Wesley McNair"
> > "William Trowbridge"
> >Subject: FW: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:10:31 -0400
> >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
> >Importance: Normal
> >X-Declude-Sender: gray@grayjacobik.com [204.60.203.69]
> >X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for
> >spam.
> >X-Spam-Tests-Failed: IPNOTINMX [0]
> >X-RCPT-TO:
> >
> >A mild protest you might actually have fun doing! Andrew Hudgins' idea.
> >
> >Gray
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: vppelizzon [mailto:vppelizzon@sbcglobal.net]
> >Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 2:21 PM
> >To: Jimmie Kimbrell; Gray Jacobik; Djoysgrape@aol.com; Charles Mahoney;
> >averillann4091@earthlink.net; Alexander Taylor; aaron sanders; Aaron
> >Bremyer; Sam Hamill; Marilyn Nelson; Cate Marvin; Jenny Spinner;
> >Margaret F Gibson; Anthony.Deaton@mail.uh.edu; wlamb01; Regina Barreca;
> >Rebecca Wolff; Holmberg, Karen
> >Subject: Fw: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> >
> >
> >Just got this from Andrew Hudgins and thought it was clever...
> >
> >
> > > Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 4:52 PM
> > > Subject: FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Concerned Writers!
> > >
> > > In direct response to Calvin Trillin's poem "What
> > > Happened to Brie and Chablis," published in the Sept.
> > > 8th issue of the New Yorker, we here at FATPUPPY.ORG
> > > have been working hard to develop an appropriate
> > > response that critiques the sad quality of poetry
> > > being published in the New Yorker (not to mention the inappropriate
> > > placement of the poem in the center of an article about famine and
> > > hardship: "Letter from
> > > Korea: Alone in the Dark").
> > >
> > > So, here it is -- THE FLASH FAT PUPPY PROJECT!
> > >
> > > To join us all you have to do is write a poem and send
> > > it to the New Yorker on Sept. 25th.
> > >
> > > Here are some basic guidelines.
> > >
> > > 1. The title must be Fat Puppy / or (alternately) Phat
> > > Puppy
> > > 2. The poem most include French doors, a veranda, and
> > > a description of light
> > > 3. There must be one word in French, untranslated.
> > > 4. There must be a heart-felt presentation of personal
> > > strife
> > > 5. Yes, a fluted champagne glass too
> > > (note: champagne can NOT count as your French word)
> > > 6. The poem must end on a "larger" question
> > > 7. Please do not spend more than 20 minutes composing
> > > your poem.
> > > 8. Feel free to use a pen name ;-)
> > >
> > > FWD this message to friends, send in your poem on the
> > > 25th and join 100s of concerned writers in this cause!
> > >
> > > Keep your eyes posted for more FATPUPPY updates!!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > =====
> > > Creative Writing Workshops and ESL Tutoring
> > > http://www.LaurieFilipelli.com
> > >
> > > __________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software
> > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
> > >
> >
> >---
> >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.
> >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> >Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003
> >
> >
> >---
> >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
> >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).
> >Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/2003
> >
>
Fat Puppy
by Tomohiro Idokoro
A four letter word for snug friar,
third letter C.
The corgies next door bicker --
something about pills.
The bitch barks, "Hurry up."
Their fat boy sniffs along the fence between
our yards, as if trying to escape something.
I reach for a beebee gun in my mind, then tear open
a croissant of sympathy.
French doors slam shut.
Eleven down : cherubic borzoi,
eight letters, second letter A,
fifth letter T.
The garage rolls open, the Lexus
hums like an itch in my throat.
Car doors slam shut.
Fourteen across : Napolean complex
M-I-L-L-E-F-E-U-I-L-L-E
Thy sky tips over like a fluted champagne glass, clouds
shatter like pieces of glass, light
spills across the lawn,
floods the veranda.
Will Sundays never cease?
