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0 posted 2005-06-21 01:11 AM


Envisioning (#1)

They’re bloviating spirits
on the midnight saucer show.
There goes my cure, I won’t sleep
for chuckling; worse, I’ll want to call.

I’ll want to ask them what a sphere
looks like edge-on, the way we see.
(a hint: edge-on is the only way
we ever see them – get it now?)
They wouldn’t know or care,
but oh they can talk for hours
about convergence, blather on
astonished by what crop circles mean.

This place we think we are
is only part of where we live,
and only part of whether.
Whole dimensions we don’t have
make scenery there, and there
is here, we’re merely blind to it.

Spirit Boy is waxing bright,
the callers can’t get enough;
they’re going to sell a lot
of wind-up flashlight radios tonight.
Oh, and spirit guides now.
Why do they always pick bold
carnivores to have chosen them?

There are lots of animals,
what if that guardian were a creature
you might kick before you saw it
or, too humiliating to contemplate,
step over without noticing at all?
I know one such; others know me,
and yes, the carnivores, some extinct.

None is what it seems, each
both more and less, but what they
really are won’t move product.
I wish I could take Spirit Boy where I go;
force him to deal with it one time.
I wonder if he’d ever talk again.
I wonder if he could.

I know a man who thinks he has
a channel; it has him.
While he drones of secret knowledge
and the power of hidden wonders,
I don’t bother to describe it
as it hovers, sucking.

Time for sleep; the domes are ready,
earth quiescent now, nothing left
but the dance and the dawn,
while the night talkers reach some
cliff-hanger resolution, hawk gold coins
and invention kits, go home to their
suburban bungalows, sated.

[This message has been edited by Ratleader (06-21-2005 03:52 AM).]

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1 posted 2005-06-21 02:37 AM


LOL....wow, what a rant, RatL!  Grand write!  Really enjoyed this....pity the poor souls, or, not.  Takes all kinds, I guess??? ....jo
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2 posted 2005-06-21 03:56 AM


Me and Mr. Beam are gathering more ammo tonight too....lousy cold keeping me awake and vice-versa, with those goobers on for grins in the background, just loud enough to drown out my interior hullabaloo....

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3 posted 2005-06-21 03:30 PM


This place we think we are
is only part of where we live,
and only part of whether.
Whole dimensions we don’t have
make scenery there, and there
is here, we’re merely blind to it.

I regret your sleepless night and hope you feel better soon.

I've read this several times... and find it more fascinating with every read... I grin, I nod... but most of all... I follow your wonder. *S* So... if you ever get those answers... please share them? *S* Excellent write!!!

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4 posted 2005-06-21 04:05 PM


Ed

Amazing what the night can bring, or day for that matter....maybe I sleep too much.  I really enjoyed this wonderful trip into your last night.  

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