“i” just wishes “i” could talk more smarter theory, no / “i” just wishes “i” could write more smarter poems, no / “i” thinks “WHY I AM A POET AND NOT A…”
The first title for the short novel I am working on was Does Not Love, it was taken from a poem by Dean Young and the full line was: “Something there is that does not love / a constructor of rollercoasters.” I liked this title for the following reasons:
a. the title, out of context, is pretty bleak, but
b. the context it comes from is pretty funny, also
c. I like that most people would assume that the context was the poem that Dean Young was referencing, that Robert Frost thing that goes “Something there is that does not love a wall,” and
d. I like that the title references a line that is referencing something else.
BUT:
I have been told by basically everyone I know, by now, that this is a terrible title. AND:
I’m not really married to it, to be honest. I’d take another title if I could come up with something. HOWEVER:
I hadn’t really managed to come up with anything else. So today I am playing the game where I try to come up with as many titles as I can. This is a way of procrastinating without feeling too bad about it.
Here is what I have come up with so far:
There Is a New Kind of Love Growing Between Us but I Do Not Know Its Name
Robert and Viola Experiment with Drugs and New Lovers
You Should Know When Someone’s Honking at Your Ass
These are all clearly terrible. The last one wasn’t even a real title attempt, it was just something that someone said, across the room.
But what this post was really about was, fuck I love Olena Kalytiak Davis.
