i could say my standard line about how your backyard has never looked better
but instead i want to ask you a question really a suggestion or perhaps a request if i may be so bold
could ya write something about the word: purdy?
you coined it a while back
“I feel Purdy” (although dropping the cap is more standard)
i sort of knew what you meant and right away started using it too
then it shows up real quick at the imabic cafe (where a fine poet expresso’s herself)
i think you must define this new word for us
you made it
please tell us what it means
I loved Tracy’s pun (?–not thinking straight right now) on Purdy.
The only annoying thing was that I then started humming that song (which I hate!).
but amy
is it a pun?
and what song do you refer to?
as poets, when we offer up new words or additional meanings to already existing words we must take responsiblity for these additions we must stand behind what we have said
so if you say
i feel purdy
what exactly does this imply?
if you say
we all feel purdy
that’s different
if you say
we are afraid to feel purdy
then we are getting closer
is we say
alfred w purdy
then you must willing to stand
naked with summer in your mouth
“I feel pretty Oh so pretty I feel pretty and witty and gay And I pity Any girl who isn’t me today”
Lord, I hate that song (titled “I Feel Pretty”) from West Side Story, sung by Maria.
Come to think of it, I’m not even much of a Purdy fan.
But I liked Tracy’s clever plugging in of “Purdy” for “pretty.”
Thank you Amy.
Ken, do you not like gaps in your reading? Gaps are wonderful things that make you think. Written gaps are the great black holes that make a reader reflect back on their own experience. I suppose I think gaps can be used to connect the reader and writer. It’s along the same lines as “show, don’t tell”. Sometimes a writer can say too much. Sometimes a writer needs to let the reader think. I think Amy is an example of the readership getting what I was doing. You are reflective of the reader that wants more. I write with gaps. There will be no more.
manageable imaginations 
what?
not a single comment?
i was waiting for
someone else to
be first
i could say
my standard line
about how your backyard
has never looked better
but instead i want to ask you
a question
really a suggestion
or perhaps a request if
i may be so bold
could ya write something about the word: purdy?
you coined it a while back
“I feel Purdy” (although dropping the cap is more standard)
i sort of knew what you meant
and right away started using it too
then it shows up real quick at the imabic cafe
(where a fine poet expresso’s herself)
i think you must define this new word for us
you made it
please tell us what it means
I loved Tracy’s pun (?–not thinking straight right now) on Purdy.
The only annoying thing was that I then started humming that song (which I hate!).
but amy
is it a pun?
and what song do you refer to?
as poets, when we offer up
new words or additional meanings
to already existing words
we must take responsiblity for
these additions
we must stand behind
what we have said
so if you say
i feel purdy
what exactly does this imply?
if you say
we all feel purdy
that’s different
if you say
we are afraid to feel purdy
then we are getting closer
is we say
alfred w purdy
then you must willing to stand
naked with summer in your mouth
“I feel pretty
Oh so pretty
I feel pretty and witty and gay
And I pity
Any girl who isn’t me today”
Lord, I hate that song (titled “I Feel Pretty”) from West Side Story, sung by Maria.
Come to think of it, I’m not even much of a Purdy fan.
But I liked Tracy’s clever plugging in of “Purdy” for “pretty.”
Thank you Amy.
Ken, do you not like gaps in your reading? Gaps are wonderful things that make you think. Written gaps are the great black holes that make a reader reflect back on their own experience. I suppose I think gaps can be used to connect the reader and writer. It’s along the same lines as “show, don’t tell”. Sometimes a writer can say too much. Sometimes a writer needs to let the reader think. I think Amy is an example of the readership getting what I was doing. You are reflective of the reader that wants more. I write with gaps. There will be no more.