Poetry as Prose

[seraphcelene]

To end the week, my office is closed tomorrow for Good Friday, I thought I'd go out in style. Some of the poem's I want to include this year are not all poems in the most conventional sense. Convention, however, is sometimes just another word for format. The following is laid out like fic, but it isn't. Trust me, this is a poem from tip to toe and from the bottom of its elegant little heart.

Another piece from one of our own. tkp writes a surreal, jazzy, musical Spike/Dru love song. I really, really, really hope that you enjoy it as much as I did.



No Need for Cake or Flowers by tkp
Rating: violent.
Length: short. 350 words.
Disclaimer: Title is Jill Tracy, Diabolical Streak, "Let's Spend an Evil Night Together". Nothing gets more Spike/Dru than that song.
A/N: This isn't really a fic. It's more like stream of consciousness. You might find it fun, so I share...but it's not a fic fic.

Comments

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks so much! It is more poetry, isn't it. I'm very flattered.

BTW, *this* is the cd I'm sending you. Diabolical Streak, I mean. It's *awesome*. There needs to be vids.

[seraphcelene]

Oh, YAY! Anything that inspires writing like No Need for Cake or Flowers promises to be super fantastic. I canna wait!

I *wish* that I knew how to make vids. I have a zillion vid ideas that I keep meaning to post for people to take. Someone's gotta realize the vision, you know.

[lettered.livejournal.com]

aww. *squishes* I burned it for you, I just need to get off my ass and send it.

I wish I could make vids too! I have so many in my head! And there are some I have planned, planned down to each cut, which is just plain weird, seeing as how I'll never be technically competent enough to actually make a vid. I can barely figure out how to *play* most vids.

[seraphcelene]

I know it's SO HARD! I have Adobe Premiere and I've made two partial vids and, dude, Time Consuming. Not to mention the ripping DVD parts and selecting eps and then timing everything with the song. I had to edit the song on one because it was SO DAMN LONG. And I can't even conceive having to put all the special effects and stuff in. Work!! Serious work!!!

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I want to see-eeeeee! What songs were they? I think finding the episodes would be hardest. I mean, I have very exact clips to use in my head for some things, but finding which ep they're from, where that bit is in that ep--that would be hard. And I tend to visualize things slightly off from what they really are; like, I'll look through a photo album, very distinctly remember a head-on shot, and go back and look for it and it won't be there, just like a slight profile view, or something. V. disconcerting. So I just know I would dream up clips of things that don't actually exist, and slit my wrists looking for them, and find things *like* them but not quite, until I go crazy.

[seraphcelene]

They were both Roswell vids. The first one has long been lost, I never backed it up on my old computer and then it died. It was a Royal Four video set to Crystal Method's Trip Like I Do. First one I did. I actually really liked the beginning but who knows if it was any good. :)

The second one is a Max/Liz shipper vid set to Bush's Glycerin. I never actually finished it because I keep thinking of all the eps I'd have to go through, most of which I don't have, if I want to get it right.

Oh, wait, there was a third. Another Roswell, of course. Couple vid set to Semisonic's Made to Last a while. I think that I lost that one when I lost the first one. I never attempted a Buffy vid because Roswell only had three seasons whereas Buffy had SEVEN! Then I think, OMG! I have a general idea of what clips I'd want, but like you mentioned, they don't always actually exist. :)

It's mind bottling!