{"id":32745744995,"date":"2013-01-15T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T20:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/samrocha\/?p=32745744995"},"modified":"2015-02-04T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T00:44:02","slug":"a-bedtime-story-by-sam-and-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/samrocha\/2013\/01\/a-bedtime-story-by-sam-and-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"“One Pop Harem,” a bedtime story by Sam and Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Another \u201cformer student and present friend\u201d (I\u2019ve been blessed with several of them) and I wrote a book of poetry together last year, entirely by accident, in a dialogue written on paper plates, serenaded by the music of Spencer Ellliott.<\/p>\n

We transcribed the poems and interviews, edited them, and self-published the collection as a chapbook: Poems by Sam and Sam<\/a>. I consider it the best thing of mine in print to date.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to co-author another, much longer book this spring:\u00a0Distance and Time<\/em>. A philosophical and poetic improvisation with a co-narrative thread so thin it reads as one piece.<\/p>\n

We decided to do this after realizing that, as we once did with paper plates, we like to weave dialogue together on Facebook chat. Here\u2019s a bedtime story \u2014 One Pop Harem \u2014 we co-wrote today. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

12:27pm<\/p>\n

One pop harem<\/p>\n

twice there was a billyrabbit that lived in a wood.<\/p>\n

11:53am<\/p>\n

for three years he waited for karats<\/p>\n

11:54am<\/p>\n

but then two days passed and he got very upset about the things he heard<\/p>\n

11:55am<\/p>\n

and so he left the rabbitfield<\/p>\n

with a bag of cookies and extra fat snacks<\/p>\n

12:01pm<\/p>\n

and he ate, and ate, and ate and ate, until the snacks filled his eyelids<\/p>\n

with drowsy dreams and sleep.<\/p>\n

12:02pm<\/p>\n

goodnight<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

12:02pm<\/p>\n

The End.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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