Three Poems on Demand

turtles generate poems

No wonder they move so slowly—

Somebody in there is

Trying to write.

PICTURES OF BUGS BUNNY DRESSED LIKE A THUG

What drove me to draw this picture

Of Bugs Bunny dressed like a thug?

Plural. Pictures. Not once did I sketch

The buff tattooed torso of Thug Bugs

But many times, over several days.

He looks mean, doesn’t he? When O when

Will this election be over

So I can blow off life again

Without inadvertently producing objects

Of great and mysterious-to-me beauty.

POEM FOR A SIXTH WEDDING

You know a lot better than I do

What you’re doing

Notes:

“Three poems on Demand” was written in response to web searches that led to Jordan Davis’s defunct blog [http://millionpoems.blogspot.com/]. (The search terms became the titles of the poems.) Davis was also inspired by K. Silem Mohammad’s essay “Sought Poems,” which accounts for the Flarf practice of making poems from Internet search results.

Source: Poetry (July/August 2009)