I've been idling away a half an hour trying to find some new poems on the theme of drink or drunkenness. Plagiarist and PoetryX seem to have remarkably little on this theme - perhaps it's a deliberate bowdlerization of the canon, a moral crusade against the evils of the demon drink on their part??
I just typed "dead drunk" into the Keywords box.
The reply I got was: "Did you mean 'determined'?"
Well, no. And I can't see any obvious connection between the two. Not even the number of 'd's.
However... the more I think on it, the more I feel there might be an idea for a poem hiding in there somewhere (like the Inuit soapstone carvers who can 'see' the animal imprisoned in the rock when they first pick it up).
'Determined' is so marvellously fraught with ambiguity in itself. How on earth did we end up with a word that means both 'strong-willed' and '(an issue, fate) decided by others'? And then how determined must we be to get dead drunk? And what is it, if anything, that we determine by getting dead drunk? And what is determined for us?
The way my mind works......
Don't try to understand it. Just be the seagull following the trawler.
3 comments:
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oh, but where's the fun in "not" trying to understand how your mind works?
hey there you should have given drunked and pissed off. kewl intresting stuff you have it on your blog. nice blog keep up the good work and be in touch
regards Biby - Blog
Gosh - "drive-by" commenting from Kerala now!
I'm becoming truly 'international'.
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