Karma Souptra (poem)
Campbell's Soup I (1968) by Andy Warhol
Tin can karma
In a cemetery green sedan
Driving into the past
Through the future
Running round and round
And over and over
The illusory track of time
Like a bomb
That never goes off
Like a song that rings
In Campbell's soup cans
Round and round the rims
Not going out or in
Just sticking to the circuit
Like a one ring soup can
Gerbil wheel circus
Till the tin finally erodes
The illusion of time caves in
And full circle cemetery green
Karma darts to the next can
In the aisle of now.
Campbell's Soup I in Cemetery Green (2008) by Jesus Crisis
funky - I like it - karma in a kan
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Doin' the kan kan...
Thanks, Lady!
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I've never paid a lot of attention to soup cans before and, after examining these, I realized they say condensed on them which adds an entirely new dimension to the metaphor of karma and time in the poem.
Very way cool... love it... if it weren't bad karma, I'd admit to how damn jealous I am of your tremendous talent. Instead, I'll say keep them coming!
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Thanks, Pinky! I feel you have tremendous talent.
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Glad your not into kicking the karma can... or feeling can-tankerous.... but this is a vey cannily written poem and... I like it. (can I still say that here on this blog??)
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You certainly can! Thanks, Chris!
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Priceless! Thanks, Edie!
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oooohhhh..."cemetery green" I love this! Will have to add it to my favorites file.
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Thank you very much, Jen!
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Yum yum good, yum yum good, that's what Campbell's soup is, yum yum good.
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Mmm... I'm gettin' hungry.
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Food In Heaven
Food In Heaven
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=880068&sitename=charlax&password=&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry
He made the cows to want the rain to fall he made the grass that they use to eat to fill the want inside a cow he makes grass as bread for cows they just continue there to graze in some places in the desert spaces there is grass for cows to eat this is called heaven sweet to cows they drink water when they have it in a drink flavored pouch oh no see eh ewe caught me making lies no listen while eye smile and tell ewe this poem is so nice there is grass for all the cows there is grass on every hill and every cow can eat in heaven they still have grass for every cow there is food in heaven there is food there in a drink flavored pouch.
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc48/charlaxici/PocketRoastRaw.jpg
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AccessDenied
99Theme99
Split Pea Group Access denied
A pea rolls around in some people's brains trying to find a level spaced place
No idea is usually formed in time
Sports minded people have beer
In the belly and game on the brain
Reality is framed from sitting on the 50 yard line
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Here is all the great flowing words and flowery adjectives rolled up into a pigskinned football.
This is dedicated to the wives of all the couch potatoes and the siblings of the football brothers and everyother tired of sports as god. Access Denied.
http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index.pl?poemnumber=939186&sitename=charlaxici&poemoffset=0&displaypoem=t&item=poetry
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I like this poem, Charles! Thanks for sharing it here.
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Just let them Camp Bells ring do dah
the first poem was a stab at trying to relate then eye remebered the split pea can poem HAHAHAH good one thankzx yew for a most wonderful experience you are blessed of Jesus (Crisus) hahah
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Art 101
collage by Steven B. Smith
sometimes in the late 1980s
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try one more time to leave an image
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okay. i left the image as a comment on your myspace profile page. so the code works there but not here. go figure. what am i missing?
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John can convert the code into an image later... so you can always post it anyway... For some reason it doesn't work here the way it does on MySpace.
Cool collage Steve...
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For some reason, though I have the site set to accept HTML code, it's not working when folks try to leave comments. I'm baffled as to why. But it lets me do it when I reply - and it also allows me to edit comments. So for now if you leave the image URL I can turn it into an image in your comments, as I've done above.
Very cool and perfect art, Smith! Glad you shared it here.
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Looks to me like you are recycling the 1960s War Hole...
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From Vietnam to VietSaddam
Vietdumb and dumber
And the popu-less gets numb and number
At least by the 70s we were ready to impeach Nixon, whether or not he ended the war
In the aughts (naughts), we're ready to elect McPalin whether or not they continue the war
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Campbells Soup and the can it comes in are pure marketing genius. It's the only product I can remember that has not changed one bit since I was a kid. When I open a can of Chicken Noodle for my daughter, "the illusion of time caves in." I could be my own mother opening that can for me. Everything chages except that can.
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It's amazing what an image of a can can do.
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Actually, it was more your words than anything else that prompted the thought. I interpreted your interpretation.
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the posting done by the Jesus Crisis, are always the great one.
the pictures are really the great one.
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Its good things, keep share
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This is the good step u have taken. Thanks for writing this, its clear you have spent a good amount of time on your sites development.
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