Suggested Writing Assignments
For Bill Taft's most recent Another Evening With the Garbagemen spoken word night there were two:
- Write an “artist’s statement” about your work.
- Write a supershort story using the first line “I had no idea it was gonna burn that fast.”
I had no idea it was gonna burn that fast.
It took longer to find a clean CD-R than it took to render the whole Requiem--a favorite by Fauré foraged from the library.
An illicit copy was so easy to obtain--ripped and returned a full week before its due date.
The Pie Jesu runs four minutes but burned in less than one—“Compassionate Christ” compressed in a clip.
And now its gentle grieving is mine to mourn at my leisure--from Introit to In Paradisum.
May God forgive my crime.
It took longer to find a clean CD-R than it took to render the whole Requiem--a favorite by Fauré foraged from the library.
An illicit copy was so easy to obtain--ripped and returned a full week before its due date.
The Pie Jesu runs four minutes but burned in less than one—“Compassionate Christ” compressed in a clip.
And now its gentle grieving is mine to mourn at my leisure--from Introit to In Paradisum.
May God forgive my crime.
posted by Brian Bannon @ 2:02 PM
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3 Comments:
Given your workout schedule, I thought you might begin like this:
"I had no idea it was gonna burn that fast. After the first hundred crunches, my glutes were on fire."
I'd be curious to read your artist's statement sometime. I bet it involves the cleansing power of fire.
At my last toastmasters a guy gave a "humorous anecdote" speech about always burning his toast.
Zarathustra also spoke.
It was either go with the fire or some kind of Ben-Gay reference, and I didn't want to work blue. For a change.
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