today, we examine the psyche of the author of the
poem "There once was a diver named Andy."
first line:
SmokeAire:
There once was diver named Andy
immediately we see the displaced and latent anger in the
author, wishing the character "Andy" an untimely death, due
no doubt to the severe feelings of insecurity which said
character awakens in the author, no doubt a lingering Oedipal
Complex wherein the author's puny and flacid line skills
are transfered to the manly "Andy" who must thus be killed
so that no competition may threaten the author...
the author continues:
SmokeAire:
Who everyone thought was a dandy
the community at large is called upon to demean "Andy."
clearly, even the memory (after death) of this powerful and
manly diver is a threat to Chuck...er...the author, who must
resort to comunal oprobium to achieve a sense of
accomplishment which even in death, "Andy" threatens
SmokeAire:
again, the theme of death ("lay" as in the grave), but note the
sexual connotation of the word choices:
line, as in pick-up line,
and
lay, as in end result of a night of bar-hopping.
clearly, the author is thretened by "Andy's" legendary prowess
with the opposite sex...
SmokeAire:
a tangled pile in the clay
so no one thought he was handy!
and thus the poem ends with further wishes of death (the "clay"
being the earth to which we all return in the end) and one
last "dig" with the word "handy", clearly one final attempt
to insinuate that rather than real, "Andy's" accomplishments
were of the hand (as in, sleight of hand, or perhaps even,
in a sexual context, self-gratification).
thus, this poem clearly reflects more upon the writer than
on the character "Andy"
