Has anyone read the poetry of Amy Clampitt?

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:55pm

A NYC based poet who died in the 1990's. I saw a concert of songs to her poetry yesterday and immediately went out and bought a book of her poems.

Check out "Times Square Water Music" The first time that a poem brought tears to my eyes the first time I read it.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 3:57pm

I hope your thread gets deleted.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:01pm

was she a poor mountaineer who barely kept her family fed?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:02pm

no doodle, i think she was a sniveling hypocrite who spent all her time making excuses for hatemongers.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:07pm

That's very adult, boys.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:08pm

Cut them some slack. They were molested.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:09pm

quiet, house n*. this here be's our thread now.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:09pm

Is she one a THEM folk?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:09pm

Papalovesmambo for the win.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:11pm

I wish I'd known all it took was saying house n* to get a thread deleted. We could have had all of johnboy2's amanda threads deleted that way.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:12pm

Oh, Moderator! Oh, Moderatrix!

This thread offends my deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelicate sensibilities.

Please delete it before I cry.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:14pm

I'm a
Colored spade
A n*
A black n*
A jungle bunny
Jigaboo coon
Pickaninny mau mau

Uncle Tom
Aunt Jemima
Little Black Sambo

Cotton pickin'
Swamp guinea
Junk man
Shoeshine boy

Elevator operator
Table cleaner at Horn & Hardart
Slave voodoo
Zombie
Ubangi lipped

Flat nose
Tap dancin'
Resident of Harlem

And president of
The United States of Love
President of
The United States of Love

(and if you ask him to dinner you're going to feed him:)

Watermelon
Hominy grits
An' shortnin' bread
Alligator ribs
Some pig tails
Some black eyed peas
Some chili
Some collard greens

And if you don't watch out
This boogie man will get you
Booooooooo!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:14pm

I do marvel at how fast that stuff that upsets Fenchurch gets deleted. Those Amanda threads would just keep going and going even after multiple complaints were made.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:15pm

Did Amy Clampitt write that?

It's from the musical HAIR.

[Fenchurch]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:16pm

Well, Im sure you're happy with yourselves. You've forced me out in your Lord of the Flies-esque way. Like ten year old boys in a schoolyard, you've made it very clear.

You don't want any dissent here.
You don't want anyone who thinks differently than you do here.
You don't want new ideas here.

Fine. I have better things to do.

Goodbye.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:18pm

we don't mind people who think differently, its people who apologize for hate mongers that we don't want here, which is why we've been trying to get rid of Roxy for years.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:19pm

oh please, this is like the third time you've threatened to leave and you're still here. like all of the goodbye gals.

you might even leave, but you'll come back with a new name and the same exact bullsh*t because you're not bright enough to be original.

so leave. no one here's gonna cry when yer gone.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:26pm

Does this mean we can have a Donnie McClurkin thread now?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:29pm

i think so, as long as we don't say porch n*

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:30pm

Goodbye...I'll be in the ceeeement pond!

Updated On: 10/29/07 at 04:30 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:33pm

long as ya don't go hidin' mah rhuematiz medicine doodle.

[tazber]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:33pm

I guess this one will next......

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:33pm

Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye.
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye.
Don't try to stop me Horace please...
Wave your little hand and whisper
So long dearie
You ain't gonna see me anymore
But when you discover that your life is dreary
Don't you come a knockin' at my door
For I'll be all dolled up
And singin' that song
That says you dog, I told you so
So wave your little hand and whisper
So long dearie
Dearie, should have said so long
So long ago

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:38pm

Dinner will be served on the pool table, papa.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 10/29/07 at 4:39pm

I keep reading the title of this thread as Clammy Armpit.