POW PROMPT 2
I ended up using a rejection letter with a song from the movie Bridget Jones ' Just Like You'. For those who do not know this song I have put it in the side bar. Scroll down to find the prompt.Looking forward to your poems.
Please Do Not Write your poem in the comment section.
PLEASE GO MISS JONES
Dear Miss Jones
This letter is to inform you that
you have not been successful in
your application for the position
of Poetry Professor.
I've been searching for a long time
We have received a number of applications
from popular local poets who are interrelated
and whom we consider more suited to the position.
For someone exactly like you
We prefer to overlook qualifications
as we find these create unhelpful independent thinking
and we tend not to accept travellers as we find them
knowledgeable and not amenable to censorship.
I've been travelling all around the world
Speaking languages other than English we consider
an unnecessary distraction and along with travel
it is deemed subversive, suspicious and unpatriotic.
Waiting for you to come through
Frankly we discourage you from applying
for any position in this organization in the future
Someone like you makes it all worthwhile
as we are comprised of reactionary unenlightened automatons
and it is in our interest to maintain the status quo.
Someone like you keeps me satisfied
Someone exactly like you
I ended up using a rejection letter with a song from the movie Bridget Jones ' Just Like You'. For those who do not know this song I have put it in the side bar. Scroll down to find the prompt.Looking forward to your poems.
Please Do Not Write your poem in the comment section.
PLEASE GO MISS JONES
Dear Miss Jones
This letter is to inform you that
you have not been successful in
your application for the position
of Poetry Professor.
I've been searching for a long time
We have received a number of applications
from popular local poets who are interrelated
and whom we consider more suited to the position.
For someone exactly like you
We prefer to overlook qualifications
as we find these create unhelpful independent thinking
and we tend not to accept travellers as we find them
knowledgeable and not amenable to censorship.
I've been travelling all around the world
Speaking languages other than English we consider
an unnecessary distraction and along with travel
it is deemed subversive, suspicious and unpatriotic.
Waiting for you to come through
Frankly we discourage you from applying
for any position in this organization in the future
Someone like you makes it all worthwhile
as we are comprised of reactionary unenlightened automatons
and it is in our interest to maintain the status quo.
Someone like you keeps me satisfied
Someone exactly like you
I like what you've done here - and that letter... so funny!
ReplyDeleteBut oh dear... you pre-empted my application...
Didn't want the job anyway... ;)
Here's mine: A FEARFUL TRILL
Well having read your poem Stanski I know now you are not just a pretty face.
ReplyDeleteCould be they were right: Bridg might be distracting in the classroom.
ReplyDeletelove the unhelpful independent thinking; and the language thing--was that an application to a Tennessee college?
Don't know why this was so hard for me. I took two stabs at it, though. In Broken Hearts and Fishes, I even wrote a sort of warped sonnet. Treading comes closer, though
Hello Rall...great rejection...nice....dam I missed the party....was out to vancouver to a party of my old hockey team...pretty good one...i will get a pôem her tomorrrow
ReplyDeleteRall,
ReplyDeleteLove what you did with the prompt. Poor Bridg.
Loved the prompt thanks.
Pamela
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/we-all-play-games-pow-2-juxtaposing-and.html
No not to Tennessee College Babs but to Southern Cross University NSW where I used to work.
ReplyDeleteLove the prompt. But it did take me all over the hemisphere before it allowed me to settle in. ;) I combined a verse from the epistle I John, lines from Malvina Reynolds' song "Little Boxes," and stuck it all together in a mundane little narrative of shotgun weddings, boredom, whoring, cheating and uniformity. Less juxtaposition, more uniformity, there perhaps... I called it "DITTO."
ReplyDeleteLove the effect of your juxtapositions, Rallentanda! Especially this one:
I've been travelling all around the world
Speaking languages other than English we consider
an unnecessary distraction and along with travel
it is deemed subversive, suspicious and unpatriotic.
Great fun! And nicely done!
Hi Rall, thanks for the party and thanks for the prompt!
ReplyDeleteLove your 'rejection' letter, especially the bit about the interrelated local poets.
Still laughing!!
Here's my Poem On... Never Quite Ever
STG.. aka Andy Sewina
Hi Rall,
ReplyDeletePoor Miss Jones, not to be loved! I also like the section Paul has highlighted. Thought that only applied to us Brits!
Mine's here:
http://melrosemusings.blogspot.com/2010/05/vagrant-pow-prompt-2.html
Glad y'all liked the prompt.I am trying to come up with something a little challenging each week.Your poems are all so good.
ReplyDeleteDerrick it also applies to Aussies and more so to Americans. Only 27% of Americans hold a passport. I like Miss Jones.She reminds me of someone I know very well.
ReplyDeleteRall this is a real challenging prompt, had to take long walks with this. Here is my poem - http://umaathreya.blogsome.com/2010/05/12/a-mothers-curse/
ReplyDeleteI love the rejection letter you've crafted here (and it's synthesis with Miss Jones). I was just reading some criticisms of university's devolution into like-think.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't able to keep my two voices separate and they intermingled, so it's not very true to the prompt (but I hope still entertaining... and by strange coincidence I used "Jones" in the title):
Jonesing for Alternative Currencies
Ultimate Rejection Letter is very clever and funny, Rall! Wish I could write to this prompt, but I just can't seem to get it figured out in my head. Too many cobwebs!
ReplyDeleteI had a go at the prompt after all, Rall!
ReplyDeleteMilitary Induction Requirements When I'm Sixty-Four
http://herwordsbloomed.blogspot.com/2010/05/pow-2-juxtaposition-and-contrast.html
Glad you changed your mind Marianne. Your poem
ReplyDeleteis very clever and funny. Army meets the Beatles was a good choice.
Loved that you landed this universally recognizable document with a beloved character. Nice touch with the "Frankly we discourage you" which is a statement all unto itself.
ReplyDeleteKind of went overboard with my poem Deliberate Faults wherein perspectives of Vatican and abuse survivors are juxtoposed at:
http://jdmackenzie.blogspot.com/2010/05/deliberate-faults.html
Nice to have a week to mull a project!
So glad you turned up Mackenzie. This poem of yours could only be described as POW (right between the eyes!)
ReplyDeleteoh, I love your letter and the poem you turned it into! terrific.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to catch a minute this week to write & join in on pow 3.
rats!
ReplyDeleteyou took the letter away. I was going to use it in:
this little thing-y
I eliminated all B Jones because that music was
ReplyDeletemerry go rounding in my head all week. I move the mood fast from week to week. Love your thingy dingalingy Babs!
here is mine for prompt #2
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