Let the po-ems of Jewel fill your wearied soul

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Okay, simply because I can't wait for the 10th anniversary of "A Night Without Armor" to ask this...what do you think of Jewel-as-Poet? Is her stuff not that bad? Was it unfairly ripped apart when it came out? Does it rival (or better) Keats, Whitman, Cummings, Sexton?

Joe, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)

omg there's one

INSECURITY i think it's called

fucking amazing

something about a phone

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

i have this book you know.

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

omg there's one

SAUSAGES i think it's called

fucking amazing

something about a phone

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:19 (seventeen years ago)

"While leaving the airport,
a gypsy woman stole my luggage.
She wore a rice paper mask over her eyes.
A mole showed neatly on her chin, hairless.
She laughed while sausages
fell from her pockets in heavy shivers.
I hope she misses them sorely."

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:21 (seventeen years ago)

wow

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:22 (seventeen years ago)

heavy shivers i don't really understand

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

it's a metaphor

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

Insecurity

you don't call
I check again
I become uneasy--
is this a frame?
Suddenly I'm not so sure
I check my sources
each conversation becomes a crumb
how easily I'm led
how stupid I've been
to believe
you could be
loving me
you who can not be seduced
by anything other than
the temperance
of need
each one facilitating the next
and suddenly I see my place
the phone rings
you say hello
but I don't believe you

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

the end is just killer

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

That shit scans like a recipe for American Chop Suey.

David R., Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:57 (seventeen years ago)

yeah i was gonna say, that looks like unadventurous emo b/s to me, no craft or ingenuity

Just got offed, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 15:59 (seventeen years ago)

mm

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:01 (seventeen years ago)

errr but i didn't WANT to say it because i don't like upsetting surmounter

Just got offed, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

haha no really i'll be OK. i mean i certainly don't find it wonderful and crafty. but i like it in a way. in the same way i like other things that are not very good maybe.

Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

And where does this fit in?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EF1767ZXL._SL500_PIlitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_.jpg

Joe, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:34 (seventeen years ago)

"Look inside"...the book? the words? *HIS SOUL*?

Joe, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 16:35 (seventeen years ago)

i'm just warning everyone, when i get the new Jewel album in a few days, i will start a thread for it. she gone country

Surmounter, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)


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