Write Your Manifesto

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So, the next Feat of Strength folks in my poetry writing class need to undertake is to write a Manifesto. ("Hey, the Unibomber wrote one of those," sez a fellow classmate.) The teacher is allowing us to write either a poetry manifesto (to justify our aesthetic choices) or a lifestyle manifesto (to tell other losers the way their life should be lived).

So, how's about it, folks? Lord knows you're still chockfull of pithy one-liners and meaningful discourse. Write YOUR manifesto.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

"Have...a good...time...ALL...the time."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone can just...eat a dick.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

WEAR Sunscreen...

― blueski, Friday, 4 October 2002 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

what Ned means, and I fully endorse is:

Now listen
Not a dime I can't pay the rent
I barely can make it through the week
Saturday night I'd like to make my girl
But right now I can't make my ends meet

I'm always workin,'slavin' every day
Gotta get a break from this same old same old
I need a chance just to get away
If you could hear me think this is what I'd say

Don't need nothing but a good time
How can I resist
Ain't looking for nothing but a good time
And it don't get better then this

They say I spend my money on women and wine
but I couldn't tell ya where I spent last night
I'm real sorry 'bout the shape I'm in
I just like my fun every now and then

You see I raise a toast to all of us
who are breakin' our backs every day
If wantin' the good life is such a crime
lord, then put me away yea
Here's to ya

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

go on Daver, tell this one to teacher!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

― Honda, Friday, 4 October 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Honda's got the right idea.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 October 2002 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

poison hater! :-)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 October 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

dada manifestos were the pinnacle of the art, i tell you.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm only in it for the beer."

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

In class, we read the Futurist (?) Manifesto - I forget, bookbag's downstairs, don't really care enough to be right - and it was talking about cars in ditches and mud and embracing war and dismissing feminism and women, and I was like "guh"? And then the teacher said, "duh", and I said, "guhfuh", and then I took a sip of Dunkin Donuts Chai, and it tasted sorta dishwatery, and I wondered why the hell I buy this crap even though it doesn't taste good, and by then, whatever.

Jel, were I to follow the way of the Poison, I'd CLEARLY have to go w/ "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". I'm partial to CC DeVille's "Kosher Weekend," though - "Pardon me, miss / Have you tried the gefilte fish?"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

patience, knowledge, preparation, action.

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 4 October 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

or the lyrics to "runnin' with the devil".

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 4 October 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

dave, dig up pound's imagist manifesto, it's nice.

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 5 October 2002 05:24 (twenty-three years ago)

And then he squatted and shat upon the podium, and filling his hands with the moist dung, proceeded to pile it high upon the crown of his head.
And the journalists trembled, for they knew that he spoke the truth.

― gabriel rodriguez-doerr (gabe), Saturday, 5 October 2002 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

anthonys is eat wash rice bowl

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 5 October 2002 06:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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