it’s a Mondo poem (…this time 😎)
tagged by I. Trudie Palmer
What is a Mondo poem?
Mondo poems are often very brief collaborative affairs that present a question and answer in the style of trying to glean meaning from nature. Mondos can be as short as a one-liner or as long as two 5–7–7 syllable stanzas (the first stanza presenting the question; the second the answer).
I think I’ve broken every rule in the Mondo book — even though there appears to be only one, two, three, four, five, six rules. OK, so my dear friend I. Trudie Palmer wants a Mondo poem on insomnia — so I guess that’s a rule too, so that makes it seven. But I just can’t get poetic over such a thing — My Mondos (yea I wrote two) are more like sleeping advice, or philosophy on both sleeplessness and why not to write so-called poetry on the subject.
Notice also that Mondos are “quote” collaborative affairs — I don’t even know what that means — Is there like a ‘glimmer twins’ of Mondo writers in Japan collaborating? I will have to consult my dear friend みやびの映画日記 on that point. As for “gleaning meaning from nature” — that kind of becomes moot when the tag was to write about insomnia -doesn’t it? I’m not sure! Anyway, I’ve been backed into the following corner (and if it was not into that corner — then it would be a very similar corner, only with different words —…
