Hilarious. Not just poetry. Maybe some of you would like to try your hand at this.
ROTFL! One of the bennies of the New Amerika. You can be whatever you want. Intelligence, I.Q. and Diplomas don’t mean a thing.
Ha! Probablya good strategy for any profession these days. Pretty soon there will be so many fake “gender neutral queen professionals” that the movement will fade away lol
Vancouver BC or Vancouver WA?
The intro of the award-worthy piece, titled Shakespeare's C*msl*t, reads: 'To ?️ or not to ?️ William Shakespeare’s ??? little c*msl*t ??? : that is the question.
It was published in the Tofu Ink Arts Press, which has a mission of 'amplifying the voices of the under-represented.
When I saw the title, I was certain it would be an article from the Babylon Bee.
Smart to turn the game back on them.
Laz, you might have to expand your list of things you’d “hit.”
Literary success does not come easily.
Many years ago (1985), at U of Chicago, some friends and I published a newspaper that made a bit of a ruckus at the time. One of the parody articles was an interview with a “gay poet” whose poems (”Space”, “Typelessness”, “Emptiness”, and “[Untitled]”) had no words.
During the “interview”, Spaniel revealed he wasn’t really gay. He aspired to be, he pretended to be, but it just wasn’t in the jeans.
Real life follows fiction. Movie called American Fiction (2023) is about a black author; real life here, even more absurd.
“Hilarious. Not just poetry. Maybe some of you would like to try your hand at this.”
I tried this on a job resume. I got the interview and when the black, female HR manager came into the office and saw me, the look on her face was precious. For the entire interview, she kept looking at me like she smelled crap. Knowing she cannot openly ask my race, she finally said it. “On your resume it says you are African American, however you do not fit the characteristics of an African American.” When I told her I was born in South Africa so that makes me an African American, she was angry and told me the interview was over.
Legally, I had the company by the short hairs but all I did was quote MLK on color of skin and content of character.
Who was the fellow in the 1960s I think that pretended to be something he wasn’t and loads of people fell for it. I vaguely remember him being interviewed by Long John Nebel or similar.
Reminds me of Eddie Murphy’s Reggae“street poet” skit:
“Kill the white peoples
Kill the white peoples
Kill
Kill
Kill”
“Straight white author’s career finally takes off after he tells woke publishers he’s gender queer Nigerian”
i woulda sworn on a stack of Bibles that had to be a babylon bee headline ...
He said, “’In the end, I hope people will see from this that there’s room for all types of writing and narratives in today’s literary world, if only we’d stop being so adversarial and moralistic about things.’”
Ha! FAT CHANCE!
Bfl