9/1/13

a mamaist coining





one whose soul is roomy: Rumi
one who in the face of divinity is undaunted: Dante
  
                    *

one who is a son of Amor: Emerson
one who has manly wit: Whitman
one who when walled-in suffers himself thoroughly:  
                   Thoreau

                     *

one for whom the Body is bawdy: Baudelaire
one who avails himself of Apollo's airs: Apollinaire
one who when ardent is a closet Rambo: Rimbaud
                                        
                     *

one who knows well a word's worth: Wordsworth
one who when he wants to can shell out: Shelley
one who has a key to the exchange: Keats
                                        
                      *

one who in the depths of his soul stays wild: Wilde
one whose inspiration is in following his own beat:     
                   Ginsberg
one whose vision heralds a broad sky: Brodsky





Botsford, Alan. mamaist: learning a new language. Kamakura, Japan, Minato No Hito, 2002.