I Disease or The Answer is in the Refrigerator

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Open Poetry #40

I Disease or The Answer is in the Refrigerator

Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2007-06-09 08:46 PM

No, I don't mean eye disease.
I mean "I" disease.
I I I I I

I do this.  I do that.
I need that.  I don't have, I want ...
How disgusting! Who wants to hear about "I?"
So in this story
the word I will not be used.

It is in a class activity.  It involves learning how to row across a lake.
It lies or tells the truth in the boat
and feels the vibrations of its engine
as it takes it to the drop off point.
It asks the teacher
is it possible to row across the lake
under its own power.
The teacher says:
The answer is in the refrigerator.
which, in dream lingo means:

it will have to find out for itself.
It gets into some weird contraption resembling a kayak; although it doesn't know what a kayak looks like.
It has to sit in the "boat" backwards to go forwards
and it has to sit in
the boat forwards
and pedal forwards  to go backwards.
It pedals backwards.
It pedals backwards
in some random direction across the lake
and encounters a bunch of sighted people.
They tell it that it is dangerous to go out on the water by itself.
It tells them it is in a class where it is learning to do this.
It tells them
it is putting on its water shoes and takes off.
It has to get back to where the class is to assemble.

It doesn't want to get lost
and be left behind.
It decides to just pedal along each shore

of the square lake
and try to find its group.

It hopes that it (the reader)
liked this "poem"
bereft as it is

or shorn of all personal pronouns.
Would it be okay for it to write about itself next time?
It looked in the refrigerator
but the answer wasn't in there.
Can it close the refrigerator now?
Could the answer be in the freezer?
Maybe the answer is in the oven?
It is now going to spell check its work
to be sure it didn't make any mistakes
so it can read it.

Floating aloft
Southern Cross

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2007-06-10 08:08 AM

Jaime, this reader is grinning at your ingenuity.

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