Bemildred*
Feb. 24th, 2006 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyMy poem, "Night Train: Heading West," is going to be in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX.
My bemildredment is small and personal and has to do with the fact that I'm not a poet and I know I'm not a poet. This is the only poem I've written in ages and ages (practically since the Second Punic War), and I doubt--but of course cannot discount the possibility completely--I'll ever write another one.
It is not a complaining bemildredment, mind you. Nor is it a wtf are they thinking? bemildredment. Just ... not what I expected somehow. Life is odd.
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*iirc the name of the third bat in Pogo--either that or my post-con-crud is giving me delusions.
My bemildredment is small and personal and has to do with the fact that I'm not a poet and I know I'm not a poet. This is the only poem I've written in ages and ages (practically since the Second Punic War), and I doubt--but of course cannot discount the possibility completely--I'll ever write another one.
It is not a complaining bemildredment, mind you. Nor is it a wtf are they thinking? bemildredment. Just ... not what I expected somehow. Life is odd.
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*iirc the name of the third bat in Pogo--either that or my post-con-crud is giving me delusions.
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-24 10:52 pm (UTC)The poem itself comes from taking the train to Minneapolis.
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:36 pm (UTC)And yes, that's the name of the Bat with the third pants.
---L.
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Date: 2006-02-24 10:51 pm (UTC)Seriously, I was posting that thinking, Well, if I'm wrong, Larry will tell me and I can fix it.
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Date: 2006-02-25 12:32 am (UTC)Confession: I had to go to Wikipedia to produce the name of the second bat, which really is just Bothered and not a Kellyesque mangling. And while there, I learned that Bemildred is sometimes merely Bewildered -- which factoid I'd clearly edited from memory as ... just too normal. There's no normal in Fort Mudge. That'd ruin the jokes.
---L.
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Date: 2006-02-24 02:53 pm (UTC)I understand your bemildredment. As another non-poet I felt something similar when my cat haiku was chosen to be included in a creative writing book with selected readings. Life is indeed odd.
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Date: 2006-02-24 04:07 pm (UTC)Yeah you!
Date: 2006-02-24 04:30 pm (UTC)JD
PS - read half of Melusine last night - and wow! Just wow. I'm so happy.
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Date: 2006-02-25 05:08 am (UTC)You are to be congratulated, and I'm just the guy to do it.
Congratulations!