Oriental Doll

Oriental Doll

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A poem that is political. Opine please?

G.O.P

Finger off the flares
That fall to river bottoms
Illuminating quasars
Manipulating the strings of dolls

Sniff the snow of mountain tops
While undoing the dresses
Of your thousand languid ladies

Gaze at the ghosts of young men
Laughing in the trees
Drinking barrels of wooden liquor
Beating heads in with bats

Learn locomotive lust
Anticipating prosperity
Ejaculating on the willing tongue
Of elites

Celebrate Halloween in basements
Below yellow, summer lawns
Serving all the last drops of poison
In fine Oriental glassware

I cannot decide if I like or hate this poem. I have read it repeatedly and, though I notice things in it, some of it eludes me. I am left wondering if that's a failing of mine, or if that's a failing in the poem. I'm guessing it's a bit of both.

So, I will touch on each paragraph as I am wont to do.

Paragraph 1 - I don't like this paragraph very much, for a few reasons. I like the tone you are taking in the first line, and it gives the reader a sense of sexuality -- "Finger off..." -- which is carried on throughout the poem. But there are parts in this paragraph that just don't, uh, do it for me. =P

My issues are with lines 3 and 4. You write illuminating quasars. Well, the common folk who don't know what a quasar is go and look it up and read, "one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe." (dictionary.com - 01/27/08) If that is accurate, why are you illuminating one of the most luminous objects in the universe? Wouldn't it be illuminating you? This causes your reader to raise eyebrows fairly early in your poem, and affects the entire judgement.

Of course, you could mean that the flares are insignificant light sources in comparison to the quasars, which are "manipulating the strings of dolls" -- manipulating the political scene, I would assume, be it the voters or the media or the parties themselves.

Or are the quasars manipulating them? It's not entirely clear. These ambiguities, I find, take away from your poem more than help it. The average reader is going to tip their hat to you for using unusual words or phrases, and not really know what you're trying to say.

Once again, I must also insist that you use proper punctuation in this poem. A properly placed comma in this sentence will eliminate the confusion of who is manipulating the dolls.

Paragraph 2 - I like this paragraph. Ya nose so stuck up that it's half-way buried on Mount Everest. Yet you don't think we see the truth of your behavior behind your lies. While I like the idea of the paragraph, I think using more concrete images would improve it. Mountain tops? Or Mount Everest? That's pretty stuck up.

Paragraph 3 - You lost me. I have no idea what the heck you're trying to say with this. I have a vague image of college-aged youth getting pissed drunk and making fools of themselves, but I fail to see how it relates to the message of your poem. I'm betting you have a reason for it, but that reason is lost in translation somewhere. And is the liquor wooden because it's from a barrel? Or because it's just really bad beer? What is it, Southpaw?

Paragraph 4 - You're back on track (get it?!) with this paragraph, however. And you return to the sexual undertones by using the words 'ejaculating' (tee hee hee) and 'lust'. Pretty simple, people lusting for the promises given by candidates. Promises of change. I must ask, however, that you don't alliterate for alliteration's sake. Don't pull out the thesaurus and pop a word in there that doesn't fit. I'm talking about 'locomotive'. This instantly brings up the image of a train for the reader and, while this is not the only definition of the word, of course, it takes away from the idea in this paragraph.

Paragraph 5 - You mention Halloween and celebrating in this poem. I'm assuming that you are referring to Halloween because of it's date, and not because of the actual holiday itself. It happens to fall on October 31, and the election is only a few days away on November 4 -- which, being Canadian, I had to look up. I don't really care, unless, of course, you decide to invade (the Mounties will save us! We'll pour maple syrup on you!).

Why are they celebrating before the election, exactly? I understand serving the "last drops of poison", -- lies, propaganda -- in "fine Oriental glassware" -- an appealing campaign slogan or ideal -- but I don't understand why they are celebrating. Unless, of course, it's Hillary or Obama celebrating a win they think they will receive (but won't -- do you think the hicks and racists mentioned in your other question will allow a woman or non-caucasian president?).

I also don't understand the references to a basement. Perhaps they are in a basement out of fear, because of the monumental mistakes made by the current administration? The same idea works for the "yellow, summer lawns": the time of fruition, summer, is over and now a long winter is on its way. But I'm not entirely sure that's what you're suggesting. I sure hope it is, because it sounds good!

I may be entirely off on this. While I enjoy my daily Colbert fix, I am not exactly watching the presidential races on the edge of my seat here, being in another country and all. The third paragraph I didn't understand could be explained by some political scandal an enthusiast would know about. I'm not sure. I'm just telling you what I think of it.

But I will reiterate my main points for you for improvement: 1) the thesaurus is both good and bad: use it, but sparingly and always check a dictionary if you aren't sure what you'll end up with; 2) punctuation is your friend and you would do well to include more of it, and; 3) if you are going to have an undertone, then continue it throughout the entirety of your poem if you can. For this poem: sex sells!

Oh, and don't operate under the delusion that sounding intelligent (big or uncommon words) makes your poem better. Anyone can write something vague that makes no sense. If it doesn't further your message, then don't put it in.

That Face ! (Asian doll ) - jerry jansen