Another highlight was the creation of "Insta-Poems" written on-the-spot as arriving guests responded to pre-printed questions and left their answers to simmer in the Poetry Cauldron. Audrey Mardavich of Clam Point ousted Kurt Klopmeier of Savin Hill for the audience vote, taking home the Insta-Poet Title Belt. You can read their poems below. (In Kurt's poem, the audience contributions are italicized. Kurt and Audrey shared many of the same slips taken from the Poetry Cauldron.)
I Controlled Time and Space
by Kurt Klopmeier
Defied physics, logic to live
a thousand lives. I married
Typhoid Mary, predisease.
We moved to Panama, strolled
among the mud hens and guava
trees.
I rowed George Washington
across the Delaware and died
by Prussian gun, so I made
a mundane life, had a girl,
populated her room with dollhouses
and unicorns, mastered white
jazz.
But I needed to see the future,
so I spent a life on the Mars
spaceship and drifted slowly
into the cosmos, dot dot dot.
Life
on Mars
by Audrey Mardavich
Life
on Mars is a lot like life on Earth
except
there’s no good Mexican food,
my
Mother’s not here, either
even
though I paid like a MILLION dollars to get here.
I’m
RICHARD NIXON
I’m
CEO of Mitch Manning’s Extreme Makeover,
you
won’t be able to count the amount
of
insufferable Harvard undergrads’ heads
I
stomped on to get here.
Someone,
send me a French Vanilla Iced Coffee!
The
ground is very dry--full of rocks.
I
miss waffle house.
I
miss “diaper boy.”
No
one told me Mars sucks and is extremely lonely.
I
love you George Washington!
I
love you yogurt!
I
never thought I’d say this but
Earth
rules.
