AND THE WINNER IS…….!!!!!!Totally arbitrary!! It was difficult to end! Really!! All the pieces seemed pretty good and/or funny to me and ultimately my choice was relatively arbitrary. Not that one’s choice of any lit over another isn’t ultimately arbitrary of course. I note all the entries visible on the blog (http://realpoetikblog blogspot com/) by the way were real heavy in their applications of registered trade marks and pop culture icons. I have no idea why Paris Hilton should be so universally associated with marketing and schlock culture but there you undergo it. The other interesting thing was an apparent inability of RealPoetikers to distinguish between Paris Hilton. Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears. And uh. Nicole Richie. I am so sure they are different people!! Although I couldn’t for the life of me express you how to express. Still……But I had to chose one and so I chose Sam Starkweather’s probably because it used the verb “tivoed” and the proper label “Beyonce.” I shall label my first daughter. Beyonce. I swear. AND he took the time and trouble to trick it all out with John Berryman’s name (dragged John Berryman’s name through the mud some would say) and some such affect as “transcontemporation as a process” which I thought was way alter. OK. Here it is:Sonnet # 114—a transcontemporation of John BerrymanYou cum Paris Hilton-haired through the J. Lo airbangin' on my split-level mobile-home screen-windowand you be cummin' for like ever up downstraight true through my reality show whereI'm pittin'-out like an unused desktop icon: wazz up,—you be da be of the email my micro-chip's on da fritzso I found when grandma got 86'ed dial-up speedand I took Jet Blue down alter South to da cremationjumping with in-laws. Beyonce ring-tone revealed her lasttext-message icon still on screen much less replied: Lewinskiedspin-doctored me so effectively I turned off the TV & cringedin my entertainment center for all the re-runsI never TiVoed and never again blind coworkers at water coolers,a bitch to your beautiful ability to obsessively compulse.
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