The majority of responses were filled with frustration, some along the lines of "stupid unseen poem" or the beautifully understated "I think I may have misinterpreted that last Long Distance II text a little bit".
Saunders was in a conference-call meeting, and began doodling, "writing these stupid Doctor Seussian poems, drawing the picture, writing the poem, drawing the picture, putting them on a pile.
She, Marie Howe, Lucie Brock-Broido and Tony Hoagland are editing a collection of his poems, "Stupid Hope" — the poems he wrote while and about dying — in which the work finally feels vital.
In its long and glorious history, the "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Further in Summer Than the Birds" are exceptional; there have been many stupid, trivial poems.
His most famous poem is "stupid america," published in 1969: stupid america, see that chicano with a big knife on his steady hand he doesn't want to knife you he wants to sit on the bench and carve christfigures but you won't let him.
You've written many poems about the "stupid jobs" you worked during your 20s at various Detroit auto plants.
"My poems are so stupid," Mao Zedong told his biographer, Robert Payne, in 1946.
— Rollo Romig "My poems are so stupid," Mao Zedong told his biographer, Robert Payne, in 1946.
By Rollo Romig August 12, 2008 "My poems are so stupid," Mao Zedong told his biographer, Robert Payne, in 1946.
Mindful of Paul Valery's painfully-true contention that "Love is being stupid together," how about ten poems and ten paintings that celebrate the art of being stupid together?
