my name

Posted on April 4, 2014 by aprayerlikegravity

(NaPoWriMo, Day 4)




Will you buy my name?
It is a good name.

I will sell it to you cheap.
You can besmirch it all you like.

Soil it.
Dirty it.
Sully it.

You can drag it 
through the streets
and burn it in 
or out of effigy.

Any way you like,
you can dine upon it and
stain it with the sauce 
that spills from your mouth.

25 thoughts on “my name”

Johnny, I’m in for an all-nighter and you just gave me a belly laugh and big ass smile. But you need to develop this some more–it has so much potential for greatness. Thanks. Best>KB

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 02:15 said:

I’m afraid any further potential shall have to wait for another time….Glad you dug it.

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- K. A. Brace on April 5, 2014 at 09:00 said:
  
  Just the same I hope you do work on it. >KB
  
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Reblogged this on The Mirror Obscura and commented:
I’m doing an all nighter and I just read this and it made me roar with laughter and needs to be shared with lots of people. I present to you Johnmny Crabcakes, A Prayer Like Gravity’s post. Please send all ‘Likes and Comments’ directly to his site.

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Hope you don’t mind. >KB

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 01:50 said:

Never, sir. And I guess I have you to thank for the inordinately large number of likes I got on this little knock-off of a poem…blew all my “top posts and pages” out of the water.

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- K. A. Brace on April 5, 2014 at 09:00 said:
  
  Well you deserved it. Best >KB
  
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JCC what on earth are you up to now – selling your name of all things..tut tut young man – and think yourself lucky – I have been on a WP hiatus for a few days, now the weekend I may get back into writing and commenting. I’ll buy your name to stain with the sauce 🙂

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 01:51 said:

Make me an offer, mums….make me an offer.
Thanks–been on a bit of a break myself.

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Wow!! Great poem, loved it’s simple but effective message 🙂

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 01:52 said:

Thank you so much–Simple is usually the most effective, it seems.

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- todessakane2013 on April 5, 2014 at 05:23 said:
  
  I agree! Hope you have a great weekend. Keep up the great work and God bless you lots 🙂
  
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OMG, this is so funny. Loved, loved, loved it crab-man.

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 01:54 said:

Thanks Susan–glad you liked it. Didn’t intend it that way but gosh, I guess it does have a sort of sloppy humor to it.
I always love it when I am confronted through my readers with a re-interpretation of myself.

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This. This. This.

This is the poem I’ve been looking for.

Wow.

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 02:06 said:

Golly, and to think I just kind of banged it out. And many apparently find it humorous, which I guess I can see. I really appreciate that you find something deeper(?) here. This is one of those pieces that I feel says more through its simple and few words than it would have with too many.
Thanks so much Nat–

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- potterfan97 on April 5, 2014 at 11:17 said:
  
  Strangely enough, I didn’t find it funny at all. More like… sad. A sad, half-smiling little thing.
  
  Reminds me of this poem I wrote a long time ago: http://mywordpool.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/write-my-name/
  
  – which provides further evidence to my hypothesis that you and I, friend, are trying to say the exact same thing 🙂
  
  Best wishes,
  
  Natalie
  
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  - johnnycrabcakes on April 6, 2014 at 23:14 said:
    
    “A sad, half-smiling little thing.” — Yes! Exactly how it felt.
    “Write My Name” is now on my reading list…I’ll leave its tab open in my browser until I read it fully, but I like it already.
    
    I think your hypothesis is spot-on. Been thinking that for a while now…
    
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Pregnant and juicy image to leave with the reader. I wanted to hand the subject a napkin. Nice.

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johnnycrabcakes on April 5, 2014 at 02:10 said:

Haha–yes! I once served plates to the contestants at a competitive eating competition, and your comment brought that whole gory, grotesquerie back to my mind. It was truly a disturbing and disgusting display of humanity. Funny that I now see there was an element of that memory in that final image that slipped right past my left-brain.
Thanks!

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