Autobiography of a Broke Cat
Me,
Ow !
I'm a pussy.
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John Burroughs,
a.k.a. Jesus Crisis, is a pacifist, poet, playwright, musician, composer, bibliophile, and seeker in Elyria, Ohio.
Co-founder (with Dianne Borsenik) of the monthly Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza and the annual winter wordfest known as Snoetry, John is also the founding editor and publisher for Crisis Chronicles Press and a regular contributor to the Cleveland Poetics and Ohio Poetry Association blogs. Since 2011 he has served as the OPA's webmaster pro tem.
John founded a loose association called Poets of Lorain County, under whose auspices he's hosted regular open mic and featured poet events at the Avon Lake Public Library and the Lorain Arts Council's 737 Gallery, as well as the PoetryElyria series at Jim's Coffeehouse and Diner, the Scott M. Duncan Photography studio and other venues in his hometown.
John's work has appeared on stages in four states, as well as in numerous journals, and he is the author of six poetry chapbooks, including:
Water Works (Recycled Karma Press, 2012)
Electric Company (Writing Knights Press, 2011)
6/9: Improvisations in Dependence by Jesus Crisis (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2009)
Identity Crises by Doug Manson, JC and Bree (Green Panda Press, 2009)
Bloggerel by JC (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2008)
Two broadsides featuring his work, For Change Is and Low Kay Shun, are available from NightBallet Press.
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The Tao of Jesus Crisis: Autobiography of a Broke Cat
Me,
Ow !
I'm a pussy.
really!
funny I thought the word was owl at first
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I used to think I was an owl.
Then I broke my lower case L into an exclamation point.
I'm still not sure about the title. Might change or leave out the Ohio part....
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I used to think I was an owl. Then I broke my lower case L in two and put an exclamation point on my ow. I'm changing the title to "Autobiography of a Broke Cat."
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the title is longer than the poem...
I'd make the title work as part of the poem somehow.. it does already but perhaps more directly.
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That's one reason I changed "an Ohio" to "a Broke"
Me
Ow
Now the title is integral
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cool... forgot to add my name above sorry.. on my other computer it is automatically added unless I take it off.
I will say it seems most poets are broke though...
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I knew it was you, because it showed me your email address.
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Ha! "Show me your e-mail address and I'll show you mine".... LOL..
Sorry couldn't help myself.. Anxiety has a way of bringing out the sillys in me. I'm nervous about tomorrow.
And something about your response stirred the pot.
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giving t.s eliot a run for his money?
hehehee
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i promise i won't start singing "memories"...
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cat ku
"me ow" doth he cries!
the broke cat saunters away
leaving a fur ball
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Ha!
Kathy pointed out an intriguing synchronicity that had consciously eluded me. At the same time I posted my Ow poem here I was feverishly posting O W[ilde] poems in the online library.
Hmmm....
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two wild(e) men
each armed with pen
whose sword is mightier?
coincidence or fate?
i saw ow!, not owl
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I sound my barbaric yOWp from the rooftops of the world
(apologies to Whitman)
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walt started to turn over in his grave, then rethought the context, and chuckled instead.
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Kat Man Do?
Owl ain't a fowl
Nor a me howl..
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Sorry this Kat poem was written by an Anon ee Mouse. (Not by me OW!!)
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I thought it was "owl" at first, too. I was thinkin' Owl and the Pussy Cat.
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I kinda like that it makes people think of owl - though I've since put a space between the ow and !
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