Spread Butter Everywhere - September 30, 2008

While reading Albert Goldsmith’s The Kitchen Sink,  I wrote this poem (from volume 57 page 60 of the jorunals – Date Sept 19, 2008).

BUTTER SPREAD EVERYWHERE


“Butter spread everywhere” – a favorite
Sentence according to the poet Goldbarth
But just how common a phrase is it in fact


Spinach recipes, albeit
I prefer butter spread
Everywhere with my finger
It hit the web
Like butter – spread everywhere
Then word came a couple days

Later that he was not dead


Copious amounts of peanut
Butter spread everywhere
Dumb nasty skunk
Looking for the dog
With the peanut butter


Dumb nasty skunk
Looking for the dog
With the peanut butter
Spread everywhere thing


You haven’t died yet
Form some fifteen hooker
Gang bank with peanut-butter
Spread everywhere!


I was curious I Googled it
"Butter Spread Everywhere"
Now it a favorite of mine

This one is part of a trope that I lablel "The Art of Plagiarism" - a sort of re-mix of quotes (in this case from a Google search for "butter spread everywhere"). The idea  is that a phrase, a statement becomes the target for an Internet search  in which  the languange contained in the hits returned become the poem.
So President Bush has been demanding that “Congress Must Act”  This phrase will be the search term wich will generate the language of the next entry's poemsy.

What I am reading today:

Albert Goldbarth - The Kitchen Shink: New and Selected Poems - 1972-2007
Joe Bageant - Deer Huninging with Jesus - Dispatches from America's Class War
Lee Siegel - Against the Machine - Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob
Philip F Gura - American Transcendentalism - A history

I am sitting at the Coffee Break at 54th and Troost in Kansas City across from Rockhurst University. It was cool last night with dew on the grass this morning, but we have had a beautiful Septemeber. And now this Indian Summer is over.