The Spoonbill Generator ArchiveA Golden Treasury of Collaborative Verse, 1996–2007 | |
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Poems completed in 1999 | |||
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January | |||
1999 Jan 3 | Hell Fruit | If you think that I'm the reject, then I'll thrash you till you're blue | |
1999 Jan 5 | Clouds In Angelic Underclothing | Swing down sweet cherubs and lie with me | |
1999 Jan 5 | Cherubic Implant in My Succubus | Lazy day, bowl o' porridge before me | |
1999 Jan 7 | Brain Pump Outlet | Louder than a hill of cheese | |
1999 Jan 7 | All But There | There's a THERE there all right | |
1999 Jan 7 | Trip, 15th August 1812 | The sun had scarcely risen when we started down the lane | |
1999 Jan 10 | Thumbscrews This Time | When your boots are filled with brandy | |
1999 Jan 11 | Tales for the Dogmatical Nursemaid | The unicorn, though custom deems it myth, | |
1999 Jan 11 | Cyber-Pogrom | Give me a goat and a piece of old rope and I walk right along to the fair | |
1999 Jan 13 | Unending Mitigation | Remind me to unwind the clock | |
1999 Jan 18 | Is of Night | The smiles I get when I dance around the bar | |
*** | 1999 Jan 18 | When We Reconsider All Our Footsteps | My grandmother told me on one grand occasion |
1999 Jan 20 | When We Were Proteins | In the warm air | |
*** | 1999 Jan 21 | Only Transient Sheep | Hiatus and Hibiscus are the names of my two sheep |
1999 Jan 22 | These Fiscal Cousins | Quarters | |
1999 Jan 22 | Zen Catfood | Calm throat fortune | |
1999 Jan 24 | Music Shadows Repetitively | An amphora of Egyptian darkness | |
1999 Jan 25 | Very East Nineveh | By dint of subtle mime | |
1999 Jan 25 | Sensible Noses | A small crimson telephone quivers | |
1999 Jan 26 | Seeds | The seeds of gourds shook,shook,shook! | |
1999 Jan 26 | Walk, don't sniffle and you won't get it | When I was walking this I saw: | |
1999 Jan 28 | Continental Head | Time and again I'm obliged to remark | |
1999 Jan 30 | Earth Telegram | A shrew without wings | |
1999 Jan 31 | Her Daymare | On the far side of the beach: abyss | |
February | |||
1999 Feb 2 | Ferdinand's Elm | A grey seal, with grace of an eel | |
1999 Feb 2 | Endless Power, Our Sole Accomplishment | Inflamed with paranoia | |
1999 Feb 3 | Tenacious Loip | A harsh law, or an honest law? | |
1999 Feb 4 | My Earliest Barnacle-Busting Memory | Count to ten, then start again | |
1999 Feb 8 | Crepuscular Creation | I was excreted through a pore | |
1999 Feb 8 | The Helicopter's Plenitude | Triceratops, my maiden aunt | |
1999 Feb 8 | Quantum Snork Sput Snooting | Well bless my soul and clean my boots! I've started a new stanza | |
1999 Feb 8 | From... | At the end of my tether I fastened a kite | |
*** | 1999 Feb 9 | The Lewd Mouths Squeal | Carnivores, despite the laws |
1999 Feb 11 | Spin Friar | The Lady's not for burning | |
1999 Feb 11 | Blemishes | I never saw a clean sweep | |
1999 Feb 13 | Squeamish, Mother? | Toothpaste is a substance that I readily ingest | |
1999 Feb 15 | Forever Strontium | Plug me in a catheter if there are any left | |
1999 Feb 20 | Naked Globe | Rosemary...comfrey... cammomile tea, | |
1999 Feb 21 | Crystal All Along | Dying in Luxor with the Spoonbill chill | |
1999 Feb 22 | Never Knowingly Charmed | Unskilled workers toil wordlessly | |
1999 Feb 28 | How Death Became Moonshine | My tribal ways | |
March | |||
1999 Mar 1 | Colditz Rhythm | Hellespont and Hecuba were walking down the street | |
1999 Mar 2 | It never happened really except once maybe yesterday | The night was dark, and dire foreboding crackled in the air | |
1999 Mar 6 | Opacity's 22 Miraculous Beings | Silent in the midnight silence | |
1999 Mar 6 | Sugared Death Watching | A simple thought occured today, entirely on its' own | |
1999 Mar 7 | Nubility One | The death's-head watched and waited, | |
1999 Mar 8 | Blamirog's Prophetic Landfall | Blamirog was wondering about the Blessed Isle | |
1999 Mar 10 | Seal Cobblers | Now, children, gather round, and I will tell you of Old Tom | |
1999 Mar 12 | Therapists Kill | Henrietta ate a cake | |
*** | 1999 Mar 20 | The Ballad of Archibald Sideways | The Ballad of Archibald Sideways |
1999 Mar 20 | Cessations in Cocktail-Waitressing | Catastrophe has happened on a scale that Pride forbids | |
1999 Mar 23 | My Boatswain's Left Baboon | A third knee is a mighty boon | |
1999 Mar 23 | An Entropic Encroachment | As we waited for the bus to mow the wicked postman down | |
1999 Mar 28 | Who Desecrates the Vector? | Make a portrait of King George upon the very sod | |
April | |||
1999 Apr 4 | A Dire Tenderness | Never deny that I warned you | |
1999 Apr 4 | Homer Retranslated | Conversations are a winding down of time for most, | |
1999 Apr 5 | The Leather Ambulance Crumbles | By dint of subtle mime | |
1999 Apr 7 | This Pinteresque Portion | Weasels ripped my heart out | |
1999 Apr 9 | Neoplastic Ha'penny | My parachute has broken and I don't know how to fall | |
1999 Apr 9 | Easter Greetings | Resurrection! | |
1999 Apr 13 | Uncivil Arcade | Gushing geysers greet the dwan with foam and spume and spray | |
1999 Apr 15 | Uncle Gomez's Dinosaur Eggs | Acres of acrid slime do not make a garden | |
1999 Apr 16 | A Bergsonian Lullaby For Cats | Cowboy and Chabot are on the go! | |
1999 Apr 20 | Canterbury Nemesis | Petulant pilgrims don't like to eat rope | |
1999 Apr 23 | Wizened Thoughts for Yesterdays' Leak | Tesseracts were falling as if falling were the rage | |
1999 Apr 24 | Unwound wherries aloft | Calesthenic interprobes are launched into the Sun | |
1999 Apr 24 | Romeo's Disagreeable Collapsible Peregrinations | 'Festival of shouting!', so barked the trusty swain | |
1999 Apr 26 | Handel's Balletic Hymen | Virginal scrapings are like unto gold | |
May | |||
1999 May 7 | The Unseen Chill | The 'Spoonbill Chill' hung over the land | |
1999 May 8 | Major Karamazov's On Call | Cooler than the outer wall | |
1999 May 14 | Vulva buoy | Give me a coin and pass by | |
1999 May 17 | Anthem of Unfinished Toenails | It's best to smile | |
1999 May 18 | Further from the Beatiful Foot | The rate of completion increases | |
1999 May 23 | While I'm Devoid of Syntax | Slowly, slowly crept the maddened fox | |
1999 May 26 | Warriors from Eternity | I wandered lonely as a nerd | |
1999 May 30 | Zinc Oxide Alarum | When Hydrogen confounded Zinc | |
June | |||
1999 Jun 5 | Celibate Coinage in Whitechapel Lane | Poem composition is a task the world adores | |
1999 Jun 11 | Wetness, Damp Socks, and Prawns | Although our raft is still marooned | |
1999 Jun 17 | Remember My Helicopter? | Never in the history of this our Mother Earth | |
1999 Jun 21 | Fracturating Kippers: This Homophonic Harmonium | Meet my typing-tutor | |
1999 Jun 28 | Midsummer Fails Everyone | Mellow jazz oozes from the speakers | |
1999 Jun 29 | Atmos the Ferric | Tick Tock...Boing! | |
July | |||
1999 Jul 5 | Unpleasant Lacuna | To line our wombs with chemicals | |
1999 Jul 18 | My Slapdash Endgame | A Cautionary Tale | |
August | |||
*** | 1999 Aug 4 | Quite | Why, oh why, oh why, oh why? |
1999 Aug 6 | For My Bunny Rabbit | 'Give me back my arquebus!', cried Randolph Great the Third | |
*** | 1999 Aug 17 | Deathrow Welshmen Sometimes Tick | Has time stopped? |
1999 Aug 20 | The Etiquette of Hogwash Country | Once upon a golden morn | |
1999 Aug 23 | Full Confession for the Titans | Pay up! Pay up! It's not a game, you know | |
1999 Aug 27 | Googlehimmel (Pathetic Science) | Is it so? Have you not heard? | |
1999 Aug 30 | Tarantula Flakes Ripped my Earlobe | What is the point if one lacks the finish ? | |
September | |||
1999 Sep 6 | Hugo Onerous (Episode1) | Where, oh where is the Phantom Menace | |
1999 Sep 7 | Renaissance Dental Imperfections Gallery | All right he said, I think I will | |
1999 Sep 13 | Explorers from Futility | The 'Big Adventure' all began on a day of trepidation | |
1999 Sep 23 | Anathema or Assonance | A Plutonian plutocracy, a demonized democracy, | |
1999 Sep 28 | Banana Wapentakes | How hairy is my nose, do you suppose? | |
October | |||
1999 Oct 11 | Blessed, Blessed, this Momenteum of the Morning | I told him that he shouldn't hoard the family's only Oiuja board | |
1999 Oct 14 | Ahab Still Got Those Almighty Moonshine Blues | All dressed up and nowhere to go | |
*** | 1999 Oct 16 | The Knight who Rode a Goat to Barcelona | Before the porcupine descends |
1999 Oct 23 | Beneath the Dismembering Sky | When Ethelred beheld the axolotl | |
1999 Oct 25 | Map of the Primitive Song | Sleep, curly savage, on the forest floor. | |
November | |||
*** | 1999 Nov 1 | Over-baked blossom | Now listen, please. I've brought you here |
1999 Nov 3 | Implausible Emptiness in Andromeda Parkway | Without denying anything much | |
1999 Nov 9 | To Bypass Cartesian Notation | Lot Seventeen: two lightweight combs | |
1999 Nov 12 | Fermenting the Woman from the Surgery | Achilles stole my hobby-horse | |
1999 Nov 16 | Billericay notwithstanding ... | Thus it remains, and the remainder thus | |
1999 Nov 17 | Corking the Windswept Wolves | When I consider ............ no, I can't go on | |
1999 Nov 18 | Bunuel, Masterly Engineer | I skipped among the parsley beds | |
1999 Nov 18 | Suds | The main thing to remember about hunting with a fish | |
1999 Nov 23 | The Herrings' Adieu (Striding Akimbo) | Mortar, crust of lies | |
1999 Nov 26 | Bottle Up | Spoons are the one thing God forgot | |
1999 Nov 30 | Under the auspices of the Mesopotamian tube-station in Epping | In a distant land called Pernia there ruled a mighty Peach | |
December | |||
1999 Dec 1 | One Blonde Speaking After Silence | Like fish, attracted to a flame | |
*** | 1999 Dec 1 | Stacy's Fading Cardigan | The autumn leaves |
1999 Dec 7 | Mythical Piscator | I talk to herring in the dark when no one is around | |
1999 Dec 14 | Thinking Allowed | I think that I shall never see | |
1999 Dec 14 | Screaming by Rote | A random collection of words | |
1999 Dec 16 | Claudius Jointless, Claudius Pointless | The other day I found a paper clip | |
1999 Dec 16 | Bothering Without Etiquette | Give me back my luncheon-meat! | |
1999 Dec 19 | On Heat For Months | Away! Here's neither inn nor manger | |
1999 Dec 23 | Hail Noddy! | Something whispers in my ear | |
1999 Dec 24 | Worse Shame Than Coal-Shovelling Tendencies | Uncertain and yet, somehow, sure | |
1999 Dec 24 | Subtle, Said the Maggots | Spent moons bestrew th'empyrean | |
*** | 1999 Dec 24 | You'll be a Laughing-stock Tomorrow | At this festive, glowing season |
1999 Dec 26 | The Equilibrium Rankles | Let's not add another word | |
1999 Dec 29 | I, Everest | I hear the tread of thirty thousand men | |
1999 Dec 31 | Merlin's Legendary Lost Oaths | My daughter! My daughter! the old wizard cried |