Entry 309 — Necropetry
Reading a post about some scholarly literary project, I came up with “necropetry” (neh CRAH peh tree) as the poetry that academia spends ninety percent of the time it devotes to poetry. Poetry by the dead. It spends nine point nine percent of that time on “Neonecropetry” (poetry by clones of the dead) and point one percent of it on contemporary columbetry. I do think academia should spend more time of necropetry than on contemporary columbetry. I merely think the gap between the two should be less. And I see no point in its devoting more than one percent of its time, if that, on neonecropetry. (NEE oh neh CRAH peh tree–nice word, actually, in spite of how bad it looks on the page.)