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ECLECTIC TOPIC #1 - My Chair Poem MY CHAIR POEM SAVES ME $5,100.00!
I saw an article about chairs by Christine Canabou IN FAST COMPANY MAGAZINE
called 'Seats of Power'. Pate 54, March 2002.
I loved her first line in the piece, quoted here:
"Chairs are more than just a place to park out butts."
Canobou quotes Galen Cranz from IN THE CHAIR; RETHINKING CULTURE, BODY, AND DESIGN (W.W. NORTON & CO. 1998) Who states
"The chair offers a glimpse into our collective ideas about status and honor, comfort and order, beauty and order, beauty and efficiency,
discipline and relaxation.
Two final quotes Canabou finds from Jess Sorel, Director of Design at Metropolitain Furniture Corporation, a Steelcase Ince, company:
"We wanted people to act natural"
and
"Smart design helps identify what the action should be."
The cost of such a chair when modified into a four person booth is --you guessed it, a mere $5,100.
The Price is Right, here we come.
Or rather,
here's what Canabou's fine article inspired.
A poem about, 'MY' CHAIR.
MY CHAIR, BY JOHN GEORGETTE
MY CHAIR
saved me
$5,100.00.
Esoteric ambiance
oozes out of it free,
warn out cotton
Mexican blanket
laps it
in it's own perfect
contour
industrial steel springs
allow for a rock/tilt
so far backwards,
consciousness knows
any other chair
tumbles over onto itself
but not my chair! --
which catches itself
like in the highest moment
of roller coaster ride
before the decent
and rocks itself
peacefully
to rest.
Faded Art Deco leaf patterns
from 1925
repeat themselves
over the whole surface,
two carved half moons
balance the snake face
of wood arms
curling out
from leather
so warn
it molted decades ago
into some other
organic element
scientifically
yet to be named.
More comfortable than any bed,
beds compete with it
to steal me into sleep
and late at night
with computer on lap,
undercurrents
of radio filled white noise
blend
with television sounds
as head drops off
into never-never land
of some good book
or piece of my own writing
inspired by
My Chair
from some other time.
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