The Exquisite Corpse

Alright, so this website happens to have a thing where people each add in a line to a humongous poem without reading the rest of the poem (which you’d have to be either crazy or very, very patient and not a drummer to read, because of its substantial length). I was like, what the heck? I’ll do it.

And so I did.

But then I had to come up with something to put in… hmmm.. what could be taken as humorous and yet very muchly reminds me of poems? Ooh, I know! So I wrote in  “And thenst you step back from thine murderer and you realize what he hath wrought… which is your death.”

Amazing, eh?

Anyway, I went to read the poem that had been compiled so far (I decided it was best read from the bottom up, seeing as the bottom was the first to be submitted.

This is how last few lines of the poem now read:

The same taste as my blood you spilled,
While the vermin of truth eat the rot of holiness,
And I slushied my gulliver being tolchocked real horrorshow,
And I you by the lamplight, as you read through my email
And as the screams came, she smiled to herself,
And thenst you step back from thine murderer and you realize what he hath wrought… which is your death.

If that’s not a hardcore poem, I don’t know what is. I mean, really… wow. That whole email, and slushied/gulliver/tolchocked/horrorshow thing sort of took me out of it, but that all’s still in to increase the reality of the quote… I guess. It actually works front-ways too, which I didn’t realize before:

And thenst you step back from thine murderer and you realize what he hath wrought… which is your death.
And as the screams came, she smiled to herself
And I you by the lamplight, as you read through my email
And I slushied my gulliver being tolchocked real horrorshow
while the vermin of truth eat the rot of holiness
the same taste as my blood you spilled

Anyway….

-TImmy

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If you found this it’s probably too late…

Well, as the little picture over there documents, POTOR auditions are soon. Amazing. Naturally, however, that’s not what this blog post is about. I mean, who reads the St. Timmy Productions news blog for news about St. Timmy Productions? Admittedly, a better question might be, who reads the St. Timmy Productions news blog? However, that’s unimportant. What, you ask-I know you do-is this blog post about then? Well, as I have been known to do in the past, I’ll tell ya, pal.

This is another addition to the phrases we take advantage of series. Briefly, though, I want to comment on the little thing I did up there. See where it says “addition?” Well, it was first written as “edition.” Well, that, of course, is the wrong homonym, unless your intent is to say, “It’s another edition in the phrases… etc.” See what difference a single word can make? I mean, it’s obvious in some cases (such as “I love you” instead of “I want, and am probably going to, while you’re sleeping, kill you.” … oh, I guess that’s more than one word… whatever, though, you get the point)

The phrase I actually wanted to comment on is used rather often. Well, hopefully, at least. I’m afraid it’s not used quite as often as it should be, and I’m gonna tell you why I personally contribute to any lack of its use. The phrase, I’ll just come out and tell you, is “thank you.”

Now, this is probably the thing I say the second most often in my daily life (second only to “I’m sorry”), but it has started to make less sense to say it to most things. For example, someone says, “I like your haircut.” Well, the first thing that pops into mind is to say thank you, of course. But then I started to think about it. I mean, they’re not complimenting me they’re saying that my hair looks good, and are, in turn, complimenting whoever cut my hair. Y’see? So I shouldn’t be saying thank you. I shouldn’t be saying anything at all, even. I should just kinda, I dunno, sit there. I generally say “awesome” just for the sake of removing any possible awkwardity (side not: it normally doesn’t work, just kills the conversation).

Another example: “I like your shirt.” This is a tricky one, I mean, if you’ve done some sort of stylistic thing by yourself with a shirt, then it’s fine to say thank you. But, really, someone else probably made the shirt, and the person is just complimenting their handiwork. Y’see what I mean?

The downside to all this is, of course, that it very possibly is considered rude if you don’t say thank you. This is sorta odd too. Rudeness is an odd thing, as is etiquette. Truly.

But, seriously, “Thank You” is a weird phrase if you think about it. For one, it’s a massive sentence fragment. I mean, you have a verb.. and a pronoun. Why doesn’t everyone just start saying “I would like to thank you” instead of skimping out and cutting off the first part. Lazy buggers.

I dunno, I’ve been thinking about this all day, but apparently not hard enough, seeing as It’s not a very well-worded argument. I don’t care. Go away.

-Timmy

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