{"id":2626,"date":"2016-12-17T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2016-12-17T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T18:16:10","slug":"poem-colloquial-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/17\/poem-colloquial-he\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Colloquial He"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. He lived
\n2. In a particular time
\n3. In a particular place
\nAnd one
\nOf his many editors
\nProferred the generic claim
\nPutting fourth
\nThat he rote
\nColloquially
\nAnd to this brand of righting
\nHe gave his highest, a word
\nPossible
\nAnd thank you awe
\nFor such an empyreal suggestion
\nAnd complimentary red pen<\/p>\n

This poem harkens back to a comment I had from an editor of my college newspaper, of which I was a columnist. \u00a0She noted that “I wrote colloquially.” \u00a0I think that this was meant as a negative critique. \u00a0I noted that I like to write colloquially. \u00a0How quaint.<\/p>\n

One thing I find funny about this exchange is that to in order say that I wrote using regional language or the expressions of a particular time and place, she had to use, what in the vernacular might be said to be a “two-dollar word,” a word like “colloquial.” \u00a0I use two-dollar words frequently, and even fashion new priceless words as I seize fits. \u00a0Though, for awe of these two-dollar words and priceless locution locution locution, like Forrest Gump observed, I haven’t seen\u00a0any of that money.<\/p>\n

Another thing funny about this exchange was that she made this comment from across the great inland sea known as Lake Michigan, she studying in an off-campus internship in Chicago, and I in Holland, Michigan, on the Hope College campus. \u00a0To many of us hackneyed Midwesterners, we can drum up little reverence for the cosmopolitan weighs of metropolitan elites, of which she may have come under their sway. \u00a0We inherently trust real people and are casually suspicious of wannabes, who more often than not are going no place better, but much faster.<\/p>\n

As a recovering abstract intellectual, I can relate to the quest for universality. \u00a0Nonetheless, I have found that this often degrades beautiful local realities and majestically loco characters. \u00a0Wherever we live, we live in local circumstances. \u00a0\"Live<\/a>I seek to live into my singular circumstances without any particular imperial ambitions. \u00a0I will not insist that you misunderstand me in a certain way. \u00a0Still, I am open to empyreal suggestions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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