Zelda's Inferno exercise: Our exercise this week was another "intelligence test", where we made up goofy multiple-choice questions for each other, then wrote poems based off the answers we chose. My questions:
1) Which is these colors is hottest?
a) yellow
b) blue
c) flesh tone *
d) green
2) If you increase the tension on a guitar string, which of the
following would you expect it to do?
a) break
b) make a higher pitch
c) go limp *
d) get louder
3) Which of the following is the largest?
a) sunlight on your skin
b) music
c) Salvador Dali's painting "The Persistence of Memory"
d) orgasm *
4) Before crossing the street, it is important to:
a) yell loudly to scare off any oncoming cars *
b) look both ways
c) jump really really high
d) close your eyes and pray to the gods of traffic
Other's questions, with my selected answers:
This movie was once Portuguese: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
This historical event resulted from the rape of a 12 year old: founding of the NYSE
An "ecological disaster": human species
This island chain is the result of plate tectonics: pizza hut
Rate in order of preference: orgasm, inner peace, money, chocolate
Man is to woman as: sky is to sea
The fate of the US is: psychedelic
Define spirituality: bug off
sociopath or psychopath: crazy happy
cartoon character: bugs bunny
famous person from the dead: jimi hendrix
more like Mohammad or the mountain: a rock mass
the seated position that fits you: side-saddle on a domesticated
mountain lion
What color describes your nightmare: day-old coffee in an unattended coffee pot
What lives behind your eyes: babble
What color is breath: peach
How long is memory: until the mushrooms wear off
Where to dogs go in their sleep: dancing over burning garbage
Why are: because something had to separate Q and S
How many: several before and several later
How for art thee: don't worry, and come back for the intelligence test
Two trains are traveling at light speed, both must: be periwinkle blue with extra headlights
How does the world work: my unicorn does it all
And the end result:
the trainer told the monkeys, three before and four after
and they were outraged so he offered four before and three after
and they were happy
you have to make arrangements like this as
you ride through life
sidesaddle on a barely-tamed mountain lion
sort of like Manjusri in the New World
part, perhaps, of the psychedelic destiny of the United States
Walt Whitman's America, not Ronald Reagan's
Thoreau riding a mountain lion out of the Walden woods --
can you see it?
Or Gary Snyder coming down from the peaks on the back of a puma?
the mountain will not come to you, stories about Mohammad
notwithstanding --
you gotta climb up there and tame your own damn mountain lion
stun it with a yell and grab it by the muzzle
your hands right next to the teeth, not an inch to spare for fear
and climb on and hold on as it runs and bucks and tries to shake
you off
learn to do this and perhaps you can save the world
from the ecological disaster that is civilization-as-we-know-it