I have always heard myfriends talking about how they enjoy a days fishing trip with their friends. I had never been out fishing on a boat before and on my recent holiday to Vanuatu i decided to go on a fishing trip.

They picked meup from hotel at 5;30 in the morning and at 6:30 we took off past irirki island , past ifira island and out in the deep blue waters of port vila.

It wasn't long before i got me first catch, it was a big one and a strong fish to it took me a while to wind him in, but after all that hard work i was very satisfied with my catch of the day. Caught a big marlin that weighed 6.5 kg's.

Prose Poem and Queen 2
So, as I was saying, I felt this conflict of subjectivity as recently as the late 90's about what is "worthy" of a subject matter in a poem. It would be easy, for instance, to do an experimental send-up of the highfalutin notion and write about a subject matter one knows is unimportant or unworthy. But, as Tom P. writes -- and I agree with him, I just didn't get to complete my thought -- it's an issue of "timeliness and timelessness."

My problem, I'd say is my timeliness is not exactly timeless. Perhaps that tension alone is enough to start a poem. Maybe. But when I was writing GSMQ, it ended up being a transparent gesture -- the more I write specifically about Queen and Freddie Mercury and Brian's homemade guitar, the more it seemed be like writing about blades of grass. And that made me feel good -- I'm a consensus-builder, after all, not someone who likes to see divisions but instead becomes fixated on them when I see them. So for years -- years! -- I would stop myself from writing about my fricking 2,000+ record collection -- literally the elephant in the room I wasn't talking about, this whole other side of my life. All because of received notions of subjectivity. But then you can go too far.

We're doing "The Red Wheelbarrow" for the full period in my composition class tomorrow. Anyone with ideas about what ideas to throw at my students?