Words by Christopher Franke
38 words contributed
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a word with two contradictory meanings (cleave).
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A real pain in the kunst! A real art eau crat, their poo runs tru... The
worst of them would leave any real artist in a bureau drawer.
Rewards, by grant, which they may dispense, inflates their
importance. Artychoke is an arteaucrat gone bersarx.
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by penury, or whatever, a crimp in the achieving of art.
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theory lacking basis
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educatus humanus scholastinitis, sometimes addressed as
"Doctor"; one who has been given the third degree from whence to
post.
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a madness entailing the termination of financial support.
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an anti-hero, a fool, a chump; a champion among chumps.
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clipped or cribbed writing, crimped compression, writing that is a
sequence of unelaborated statements.
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a convulsion of collage making...
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1. statistical malfeasance.
2. the cataloging of the parameters of data-dada.
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cleaning up one's act.
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the act of writing a word "play", or aplay about words.
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a situation where communicator and communicatee are not on the
same wave-length.
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a college English instructor (possibly preciose) driven over the
edge by the solecisms of their students.
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Words which when flipped in some manner remain words.
1. mirror-words,words mirrored words; 2. toeface words; words
head over heels about themselves being words [decide/decide]
3. fanned words, go upside down and backwards [dues/snap].
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a word which can be broken up into other words by putting a
space between certain of its letters as "office" split into "off ice". "Off
ice" are the "ungluted words" of "office".
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a risible one-liner
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a groaner of a lafconic. 2) a laconic that doesn't make it.
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the figment of an other's imagination, a mood-cloner can read an
other's mind and then ensue upon courses of action that mirror the
desires of.
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feminine surrealism. (Sirrealism is masculine surrealism)
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writer as write, write, write, write... (as often Ms.'s as not, perhaps)
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'Older Secure', thems as have some means squirreled away; the
source of resources may seem mysterious; and ossies may be
inclined to a certain conservatism.
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those words that need to be understood as belonging together as
a unit of meaning in a larger passage. This term is intended to
apply where there may be some ambiguity, initially or otherwise,
as in, let us say, an unpunctuated poem or one in which one takes
grammatical liberties, etc...
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a communication, not specifically poetry, that is obscured by its
'poetics', not necessarily intentionally; a poetic version of
spontaneous jargon; high-compression non-communication
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what happens when a poem really gets across!
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"grist for the mill " of a poet.
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a sort of saying "Hi!" by sending or handing out poems.
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punny poetry
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The name for the form of quotation used by objet trouvé poets, also, the term
applied to that kind of poet. -
an affliction affecting the heart wherein reality is well-laced with
fantasy and a check may be on the way.
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a dis-"pens"-er of squibs, a penner of laconics.
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divergent meanings converging in a word like "cleave"
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a cartoon in which the characters are letters; or a cartoon made
using type to illustrate figures & action
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a monoglot who is a polyglot within that one language.
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unable to progress in contemplating faster than thoughts slow
progress; thought-thinking in a sort of stasis; fixative conception.
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lost in word space
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the thrill experienced upon discovering of encountering an
appropriate or satisfying word.
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anxiety concerning the what, where, when, & how of finding a
rumumerative situation.