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"Shota-ku" is a contemporary pedophile verse form invented by Dylan Thomas, former webmaster of www.boychat.org.
Shota-ku consists of lines of seven, eleven, and five syllables, and traditionally expresses poetic admiration for a teenage boy's beauty, sexual dynamism, and "death," whether in the sexual or mortal sense. Shota-ku are often inserted in larger compositions, serving to mark high points of pedophile sentiment, and are traditionally read by small cliques of soft-spoken gentlemen, who meet quarterly at the four great festivals of the pedophile year: Winter IBLD (solstice) the spring Strawberry Festival, Summer IBLD, and Halloween.
THE AWARD
!!1000 INTERNETS!! for any student who submits a hand-written shota-ku as part of official coursework, gets hand-written teacher commentary on the paper, and posts a scan of it here!!!!
THE POEMS
For Sam Manzie
Doing Time: Twenty-five years of Prison Writing, page 259. From "Sam Manzie", lines 17-19.
Although the Village Voice article on Sam Manzie is good, it is particularly interesting to watch the mainstream media wake up to the presence of the goddess of the internet and the particular kinds of sacrifices she demands in this Newsweek article: Did the net kill Eddie?
oh noes! How do I shot stag!?!?!?
mew, mew, mew
Seneca's Phaedrus, line 761-3
Anceps forma bonum mortalibus
exigui donum breve temporis
ut velox celeri pede laberis!
This 3-line ejaculation, lines 761-3, (which can be metrically described as [4 x {Dactyl, Spondee}]) is the rhetorical climax of a carefully structured metrical show-piece, a choral hymn to young male beauty. (736-823)
- 736-752 A
- 753-760 B
- 761-763 C <----The lines in question
- 768-823 Lots of B
- (No return to A; play continues with Act 3 in "normal" Iambic Trimeter)
Various gods are listed, and at the climax the doomed Hippolytos is said to be prettier than them all....BUT only for a short time! The cherry-blossom falls; and line 762 is the very slash of the sword terminating the vision, and thus making it immortal. Young death, of course, is implied in "short-lived." For 3 lines, the chorus rings with the spiritual exaltation of beholding the very "form" of beauty. I'm thinking of the Japanese aesthetics of NOZOKU, or peeping-tom....
- This would be a "normal," fairly literal translation, emphasizing the visual and spiritual over the physical:
Beauty is not given to mortals forever:
A brief moment's gracious glimpse...
And rapidly your swift feet carry you away.
- And this would be a "shota-ku" translation: