Surrealist Poems

all poems (such as they are) by Marian Allen
unless otherwise noted

Okay, so I'm at this party? And this guy, okay, this guy says, "Let's write surrealist poems." He goes, like, "We each take a piece of paper, and write down a made-up title for a poem that hasn't been written yet, fold the paper so our title doesn't show, and pass the paper to the person next to us. We each write a new title on the paper, fold it, and pass it on. We do that three times. Then we unfold the paper we have and write a poem to go with each title. Each poem must have exactly ten words in it. Not ten syllables, ten words." So, like, we did.

January 2006 Gray Day in January Sky, slush, river--      Your eyes. January thaws before that gray. February 2006 I Always Hated Psychologists Then I met you. You make me feel so Jung. March 2006 Phantasm Is it real? Does that matter? I live with it. April 2006 Wild Grapes My hair is vine, is leaf. Green are my eyes. May 2006 All of the Tasty Foods of the World Rolled Into a Tiny Little Ball the Size of a State Taste and state are anagrams. Tiny? NY is IT. June 2006 Introspecticides With deep enough thought I can exterminate what bugs me. July 2006 Weasels Ruined My Holiday Furry bastards! Where are my Polaroids? My toes? My fingers? August 2006 Centripetal Flying outwards, unraveling into the universe like human cotton candy. September 2006 The Nosebleed that Exposed Me for What I Really Am.... ...soaked my handkerchief blue. All knelt before the true king. October 2006 A Day at the Garbage Dump This! and this! Look at this! I celebrate treasure trove. November 2006 Koi Pond Reflection of a face looking past the fish remembering -- reflecting AND -- SPECIAL GUEST POEM BY THE GUY AT THE PARTY Sweeping Someone Else's Steps by Raśl Jara It is advisable to also use someone else's broom December 2006 Because I Have No Secret I will never have a way cool backstory on Lost AND FINALLY -- ANOTHER SPECIAL GUEST POEM THE BEST SURREALIST POEM EVER! And This Time I Thought Up Two Really Good Titles by Sarai Allen But unfortunately I didn't Think up two really good Poems That's all, folks!