A found poem.

[devi]

Anyone who's been to a Zokutou meet will know the Opposites Game, where each player tries to write the opposite of the previous phrase, and then we all have a giggle at how this drifts over time. We had a big opposites game going on our airing-cupboard door at the party this weekend, and this is what resulted:

Red, The Blood of Angry Men! Black, The Dark of Ages Past!
Blue, the flesh of peaceful ladies, white, the light of the future!
Busted! Your Skellington of War-Bastard, Dusky, The Deeply Serious History!
Fixed! My Body of Hippy Bright, The Flimsy Future
Loose - your spirit fascist, dull, the solid past
unfasten thy ghostly totalitarian kdiko kosta jedno nocenje?
Tighten my fleshy communist, sharpen a runny future
Undo your bony capitalist, blunt many static pasts
assemble my voluptuous anarchist, keen few mobile futures.
Scatter thine skinny Thatcherites, loathing many stable flashbax!
Gather my fat Commies, loving some volatile premonitions
Scatter your [illegible] Capitalists, hating [?] from stable events in the past.
Collect my fat commies, loving together to wobbly tedium outside no future.
Buy all the records of McCarthy, and get married!
Steal no Skrewdrivers, lest ye take refuge in the Guardian's "Soul Mates" section 4EVAH!
People who get the cocktails in will never be lonely hearts.
Animals who give henheads out won't ever not be coupled.
Rocks that take pigbutts in shall sometimes die single.
Water gives head and won't always combine together.
Frigid liquid mixes
Barry solid straight
I am [?] of accusations of straight - [?] aka Barry
Okay - he's a raging queer
Abysmal - she's quiescent normals
Stratospheric male is effervescent extreme...
Earthed girls are easy...
Electrified weasels aren't too hot at doing difficult sums eg LONG DIVISION 362 by 521467 ect ect
Earthed buzzards love maths
Solar silence hates english
The lunar noise rather obstructs the lovely French countryside.
Dean Wareham's ex-girlfriend loves the civilised City Life magazine.
ANTONYM
Synonymousness
Virtueless elephant
Evil Pixie - Shamus.
Spong-monkey bitch-arsed humping heinous hellcats from Mars
"Officers teach soldiers, soldiers teach officers, and soldiers teach soldiers" - Chairman Mao
I went to Sixth Form, you know.
I was home-schooled
You went to state school and you loved it!
I GIVE ME AMORPHOUS LOCAL COUNTY COUNCIL [?] WITH HATE
We take shapely general federal government with LOVE.
You give amorphous specific state anarchy without HATE
I love inde[?????]
HATE LEGIBILITY
The sentence adverb
[some illegible kanji]
[some stick men]
innit.


FIN.

(It's better than regretting)

(scribbled around this was "bums bums bums bums bums", and "I'm glad I crashed the wedding", and "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?")

Comments

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I’ve been to a Zokutou meet and never played the Opposites game, where each player tries to write the same as the next phrase, and then no-one laughs as nothing changes. They will have a small Opposites game going on their ceiling at the wake next week, and this is what will be written:

RIEN A VOIR ICI

(It’s better than enjoying)

(stenciled around this was “tits tits tits tits tits” and “I’m glad I was invited to the wedding” and “J’aimerais bien coucher avec elle le weekend prochain”)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Kudos.

(Hope you did enjoy the wedding)

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-)

I did enjoy the wedding, it’s just I got greedy last night and wished I’d enjoyed the party as well.

The never having played the opposites games bit is true as well, somehow.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Scatter your [illegible] Capitalists, hating [?] from stable events in the past.

Scatter your skinny Capitalists, hating apart from stable events in the past.

I am [?] of accusations of straight - [?] aka Barry

I am outraged at accustaions of str8 - [signature] aka Barry

I love inde[?????]

I love indefinately[?]

[kesstrel.livejournal.com]

Hey, you can read my handwriting!
(the skinny communists were mine!)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I read it as "I love indie"!

Hallo!

*waves*

[rainsinger.livejournal.com]

hello!
i remember you from the party, although the skinny communists had up until now escaped my attention.

we talked piercings and I quite probably complained about my shoes.
*befriends*

Re: *waves*

[kesstrel.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

Friended :D

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ah, you beat me to it. And it was indeed 'outraged', not 'innocent'.

The signature should look *vaguely* like Alex, I would hope. But my handwriting's dreadful enough when I'm sober.

[rainsinger.livejournal.com]

mwahahhahahha.
The opposites game had escaped my attention, but thank you for transcribing it :) And I'm delighted that someone made good use of the serbo-croat phrasebook :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I tried to put the accents on the s and the c, but googles for 'learn serbian', 'serbian ascii' and 'serbian html' turned up nothing useful :/

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that this game was rescued largely by the person (persons ?) coming up with the borderline-non-sequitur entries !

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

barrysarll is very sad not to be able to read this, after contributing so much to its creation. You should friend him back at once!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Oops! How very remiss of me. I shall do so forthwith.

I am [?] of accusations of straight - [?] aka Barry

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

iirc the scrawls should be 'innocent' and 'Alex'.