{"id":2452,"date":"2004-04-29T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/30\/poem-in-your-pocket\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:51:45","slug":"poem-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/29\/poem-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem in Your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11184,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/home.nyc.gov\\\/html\\\/poem\\\/html\\\/about\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060614214254\\\/http:\\\/\\\/home.nyc.gov:80\\\/html\\\/poem\\\/html\\\/about\\\/home.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 13:14:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:56:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 05:56:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11185,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/Community.aspx?cmm=290&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11186,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.orkut.com\\\/CommEvent.aspx?cmm=290&amp;eid=5&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11187,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.english.uiuc.edu\\\/maps\\\/poets\\\/a_f\\\/cummings\\\/cummings.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11188,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/interalia.org\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/26\\\/poem-in-your-pocket&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050428200824\\\/http:\\\/\\\/interalia.org:80\\\/archives\\\/2004\\\/04\\\/26\\\/poem-in-your-pocket&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 13:14:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:502}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 13:14:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:502},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>First off, a quick explanation for things being so quiet around here lately: I&#8217;m working on a redesign of the site. In some ways, nothing major, as I&#8217;ll be keeping the same basic visual style, and I&#8217;m &#8220;just&#8221; transforming it from a single-column back to a two-column layout. However, that&#8217;s caused me to re-code from the bottom up in order to get everything working the way I want it, which has been keeping me busy over the past few nights.<\/p>\n<p>The new design probably won&#8217;t go up until sometime next week at the earliest (this being birthday weekend and all, spending hours in front of the computer is fairly low priority), but it&#8217;ll go up as soon as I can manage it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, is <a href=\"http:\/\/home.nyc.gov\/html\/poem\/html\/about\/home.html\" title=\"Poem In Your Pocket\">Poem In Your Pocket<\/a> day. Originally started by the New York Times and the City of New York, someone on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/Community.aspx?cmm=290\" title=\"orkut - communities - view\">Orkut&#8217;s blogger community<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkut.com\/CommEvent.aspx?cmm=290&amp;eid=5\" title=\"orkut - communities - events - event details\">suggested<\/a> turning this into a meme.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;The City of New York and The New York Times invite you to join us on April 30, 2004 for Poem in Your Pocket Day&#8230; New Yorkers are encouraged to carry a poem in their pocket and share it with friends, family, coworkers and classmates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  I thought it would be a great idea if bloggers did something similar on April 30th:<\/p>\n<p>  To commemorate the end of National Poetry Month, blog about your favorite poem and provide at least one link to other poems and\/or a bio of the poet.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, admittedly, I&#8217;ve never been much of one for poetry. For one reason or another, it&#8217;s an art form that has consistently failed to capture my interest much at all. However, there is one poet that I absolutely love, and have quite a few books of poetry (including one wonderful collection of his complete poems): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.uiuc.edu\/maps\/poets\/a_f\/cummings\/cummings.htm\" title=\"E.E.Cummings\">e. e. cummings<\/a>. Something about his style has always grabbed me, and he&#8217;s been the only poet ever to peak my interest.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s difficult for me to narrow down one particular favorite, there are two that consistently pop into my mind when I&#8217;m trying to pick a favorite.<\/p>\n<p>This first one I love because it&#8217;s so <em>wonderfully<\/em> un-subtle. Just my style. ;)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>she being Brand<\/p>\n<p>-new;and you<br \/>\nknow consequently a<br \/>\nlittle stiff i was<br \/>\ncareful of her and(having<\/p>\n<p>thoroughly oiled the universal<br \/>\njoint tested my gas felt of<br \/>\nher radiator made sure her springs were O.<\/p>\n<p>K.)i went right to it flooded-the-carburetor cranked her<\/p>\n<p>up,slipped the<br \/>\nclutch(and then somehow got into reverse she<br \/>\nkicked what<br \/>\nthe hell)next<br \/>\nminute i was back in neutral tried and<\/p>\n<p>again slo-wly;bare,ly nudg.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ing(my<\/p>\n<p>lev-er Right-<br \/>\noh and her gears being in<br \/>\nA 1 shape passed<br \/>\nfrom low through<br \/>\nsecond-in-to-high like<br \/>\ngreasedlightening)just as we turned the corner of Divinity<\/p>\n<p>avenue i touched the accelerator and give<\/p>\n<p>her the juice,good<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(it<\/p>\n<p>was the first ride and believe i we was<br \/>\nhappy to see how nice she acted right up to<br \/>\nthe last minute coming back down by the Public<br \/>\nGardens i slammed on<\/p>\n<p>the<br \/>\ninternalexpanding<br \/>\n&amp;<br \/>\nexternalcontracting<br \/>\nbrakes Bothatonce and<\/p>\n<p>brought allofher tremB<br \/>\n-ling<br \/>\nto a:dead.<\/p>\n<p>stand-<br \/>\n;Still)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This second one that always sticks in my head is much sweeter, and it&#8217;s primarily the last nine lines (starting with &#8220;what&#8217;s wholly&#8221;) that really get to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>because it&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Spring<br \/>\nthingS<\/p>\n<p>dare to do people<\/p>\n<p>(&amp; not<br \/>\nthe other way<\/p>\n<p>round)because it<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;s A<br \/>\npril<\/p>\n<p>Lives lead their own<\/p>\n<p>persons(in<br \/>\nstead<\/p>\n<p>of everybodyelse&#8217;s)but<\/p>\n<p>what&#8217;s wholly<br \/>\nmarvellous my<\/p>\n<p>Darling<\/p>\n<p>is that you &amp;<br \/>\ni are more than you<\/p>\n<p>&amp; i(be<\/p>\n<p>ca<br \/>\nus<\/p>\n<p>e It&#8217;s we)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Incidentally, trying to translate e. e. cummings&#8217; poetic formatting into workable valid <acronym title=\"Hypertext Markup Language\">HTML<\/acronym>\/<acronym title=\"Cascading Style Sheets\">CSS<\/acronym> is <em>not<\/em> easy to do. Hopefully I managed to pull it off&hellip;)<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/interalia.org\/archives\/2004\/04\/26\/poem-in-your-pocket\" title=\"Poem in Your Pocket\">Phil<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Lust for Life&#8221;  by Pop, Iggy from the album <em>Trainspotting<\/em> (1977, 5:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate the end of National Poetry Month, blog about your favorite poem and provide at least one link to other poems and\/or a bio of the poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2043],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-personal","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}