The Boy George love letter was great. It totally exemplifies the feelings you might have when you’re “in love” (or for a better term, infatuated) with an idol or celebrity. For example, I wish Gregory House was a real doctor, and then I’d come down with some rare disease, and THEN I’d go see House who could spend all his time diagnosing me.
But that’s a story for another day.
What really struck me was Mullen’s Between. Did anyone else notice that it’s comprised of words that are used with in between? I first thought about it when I looked up Shinola (it’s a shoe polish, and the phrase ‘don’t know the difference between shit and shinola’ mean’s you’re an idiot). Woah. Shit also happens to be in the poem.
How about between the Devil and the
Between Scylla and Charybdis
Between a rock and a hard place
Between the sheets
Between her (or his!) thighs
Between jobs
Etc.
That’s pretty clever, there, Mullen.
The best part about the poem Between is that you can interpret that poem in so many different ways, because it really has no clear intent of a meaning. I really enjoyed it.
See you all on Tuesday,
Jess Young
Great job! It took me reading the poem about a million times to figure this out. Notice that all the ones that you only need one word for ("between jobs," "between engagements," "between the sheets") come in the middles of lines, whereas two-word ones ("between shit and Shinola," "between my ass and my elbow," "between last night and this morning") are split to the beginnings and ends of lines.
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