Thursday, November 22, 2012


list of lists I haven’t made yet:

List of awesome names for cats
List of fancy pants
A list of rejected marketing ideas for tampons
List of reasons why it is awesome to be me
A list of reasons why it would be awesome to be a cat
List of reasons why disney couldn't be worse than lucas
List of inexplicably hot cartoon characters
List of awkward times to need to pee
List of weird shaped penis' I have seen
List of reasons i don't understand my friends attraction to bear grills
List of celebrities that probably smell weird
List of facebook status' nobody wants to see
List of facebook status' it's inappropriate to like (the ven diagram of those two things is a circle)
Things we are nostalgic for but really shouldn't be
List of sexy scientists
List of contests the master of conflict seems to have put thought into (a very short list)
List of badslammers who look like fancy hobos
And a list of SHUT UP KABO!

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Do you like how it ends with an in joke nobody will get unless they attend badslam?
Yeah.
I'm just that elite

Video pending my laziness.

Monday, November 19, 2012


Another example of a free writing experiment
This one took the form of a question and answer and it's about my confusion about what I was going to preform for bad slam which is in two days now.

I ended up soon after this realizing that I really wanted to do a list.
I like lists. They're fun to write and even more fun to preform. 
I don't badslam to show all of what's in my mind. I've like doing that kind of thing on the internet but it's not appropriate in a pub full of people there for a good time. This is my chance to stand in front of strangers and heroes with the goal of entertaining.
And not running away in terror.
This is also a goal.
It's a good goal.



17 nov

Omg poetry slam is in a few days and I have no idea what I am gong to do yet.
You have some ideas
Alright I have some ideas but those ideas aren't very solid yet
What ideas are those
Well I wanted to do something as misheard by voice recognition
What is wrong with that
I don't know what to do yet
What do you mean
What words to miss hear.
None of the writing I have done this month is poetic enough, or tge right length, or it is too perosnal
They will like the I'm scared one
Some would like it, the rest will talk through it
No they will love it
No. I am too scared to do I'm scared
Doesn't that mean you have to do it
No it means I have to find another
What about the little girl with words in her belly
That was crap
But it is too be misheard so crapness doesn't matter
I could write that one out again
And what about the one about gender and sexuality
I never wrote that one down
Well you should
But the words in my head won't be as good. Once they are out of my head
Well write it down anyway
Where
Here
Oh god

You ask am I a lesbo or what
What
No
Not a lesbian, too fond of dick
Not straight, too into chicks
Not bisexual because fuck gender binary
What you call sex I call boring
Not asexual, too willing to lend a hand wherever its needed
But I guess you can say my gender and sexuality is
Not you
Not now
Not ever

Its crap
Why is it crap
Because I am crap
No. That's not it
It needs. Form
How do I get form
I don't know. Listen to a how to write poetry book
After YouTube

No
The lesbians won't have me because I keep dating boys
Not straight as I am too infatuated with girls
Not bisexual because fuck gender binary
Not even a slut as I am bored by what you call sex
I could be asexual if I wasn't so keen to lend a hand wherever its needed
Polly only when I am sure my boyfriend won't mind

Sunday, November 11, 2012

I saw this video from youtubes fabulous roguebluejay.



and of course it immediately got in my brain.


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I am scared

I'm scared that I'm not good enough

I'm scared of dieing alone, crazy, and untalented

I'm scared of everything outside this room


I'm scared of love

I'm scared of hate

I'm scared of anger

I'm scared of people

I'm scared of loneliness


I'm scared of living

I'm scared of dieing of my own incompetence


I'm scared that I am living with a disease that doesn't have the common decency to kill me

I'm scared of doctors

I'm scared I will never find the right medication

I'm scared that I am crazy

I'm scared of crying


I'm scared of disappointing people

I'm scared people may be scared of me

I'm scared of never being understood

I am scared of people that understand me

I'm scared that I worry my mum


I'm scared I will never have an apartment and a cat

I'm scared that I am just a drain on the public purse


I'm scared of busy streets

I'm scared of loud noises

I'm scared of dirty kitchens

I'm scared of things that smell bad

I'm scared of old food

I'm scared of food


And I'm scared that by telling the truth nobody will like me

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I wrote then recorded, watched it back, re-edited it, and repeat until  happy or too tiered to go on.

I don't have mind mapping or free writing samples. Unlike when I try to write things using writing tools this is a thing where my mind was already full with words. No coaxing required.


I fucking love lists.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Update

I cant make the little girl sketch into a poem.
I would love to but I cannot. With some heavy editing and beautiful illistrations it may make an addorable childrens book, but i dont want to write childrens books, I do poerty.
I believe from here I shall turn the young hip menstrual product sketch into a slam poem. It is almost ready. I should have that recorded and uploaded in about a week.
Also about the toothache from "the toothache became my mistress"
The tooth popped like a pimple, releasing pressure as it did.
I see the dentist again in a week. I've first to take a course of antibiotics, with confusing rules on when i must and must not eat.
I wonder if this is what old age is to be like, but i suspect then I shall have nurses to work all this stuff out for me.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

Dear Billy Collins

Dear Billy Collins.
My name is Charles J. Quinn and I want to spend the rest of my life in poetry.
Your poem about the mouse with the match is my favorite.
I got your books from audible and have played them so often and so loud I wouldn't be surprised if the neighbors could quote them
I am writing letters to much admired authors and poets when I feel overwhelmed and confused. Yours is the first such letter I have written.

What if I am not good enough?
Alright I have bought a bunch of books and they all say good writing is not written but rewritten with skill and mental tools. But what if I put all this effort into learning and practicing but still end up just average?
Can earnest determination fail?
Will I just look stupid for trying this hard at all?
Ours is not a fair world.
I am determined to continue.
The first word of my epitaph shall say "poet".
Even if it is followed by "not a very good one".
Thank you for being my stress sounding board.
Charlie
Youtube.com/charlieisagirl
Charlieisagirl.blogspot.com.au

Friday, November 2, 2012

Girl with words inside her

This is the poem after some updating
There is still a lot to be done.
I removed a lot of useless words
And I tried to but things in a more active voice.
But like I said, still a lot of work to be done.
Now, to find out if this tablet will let me copy and paste all of this.


There was a little girl with many big words inside of her
she wanted to let them all out
when she tried all she got was a little mew noise
She could feel all her words deep inside her
the more they grew the more they hurt to keep inside
she made her little mew voice
The words started to come
First slowly and gently
With pink and yellow words
Words that smelt like cheezecake
Then  energetic words
that bubbled and throthed as they lept from her
Strong words forced change wherever they landed
Until her mews were rawrs like a lion 
Strong and they were heard by all 
the words got quieter and
The little girl made a sound like a great purring cat
she was happy

I'm really not happy about this as a poem so far,
I may end up rewriting the entire thing from the ground up.

The blogger app

I am working with a new android tablet, and when using the official app I am faced with this:

And no spellcheck which is killer for me. :(