Sunday, September 28, 2008

Postcard

my shirts don't fit.
i've lost weight and
i'll admit that
life is fair

and just

in case you're worried
i'll bring back no regrets


2 comments:

Ambiguous Q. Thunderwing said...

I am a big fan of running two ideas into each other by ending the first with the beginning of the second.

Suggestion:

and just

in case you are worried
i bear no regrets

I like this "Postcard" idea; very fertile. Do you have an image/graphic in mind that would accompany this?

joshua francis said...

Mike - I don't have a visual. I've been more interested the past few years in the backs of postcards and the style demanded by the space constraints. I tried the last line a few different ways. I think that "bring back" worked in terms of staying consistent with the idea of a postcard (original intent but maybe not the best) but having it as "have" or "bear no regrets" works better in terms of perhaps meaning more than one thing depending on where you see the second (or third) idea starting. I tend to like "have" more, mostly for the way it sounds.

thanks for the advice. I've been thinking a lot of that line "he who believes in syntax will never wholly kiss you" and its implications in verse. I have some more I'm working on with mixed results.