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Insomniac Cat Member
since 2003-09-23
Posts 69The Land of the Dadaists |
in the game of chance there are no more than forty-seven lies of simplicity, caution and the desire to remain overwhelming, arrogant and still; the dull partial surprise learned early from the painted mimics who still to this day deign to mock you with monster faces behind your back as you stay true to the marble definitions you struggle to sustain. clear and obtuse run the memorized lines as you brassly bray the exact and well-meaning opposite, deliberately ransacking the stale perception you insistently convey. truth is a marionette with a cod in its mouth, happy with the seventeen shadows of red on the walls that follow its every jerk and stumble, every crack in face, its ugly goggly eyes that never seem to listen to you. they wallow in your bile; the puppet lies in the trash with broken strings covered perpetually by orange peels, dung, and tallow. only the meek can hide beneath the stone stage when Cleo sings. her razor mouth gapes with secrets found in thumbtacks and liars, the garbled innocence of a smashed stinking rodent, her wings flailing with peace, while graphic nonentities aspire for your attention, a mouth full of sparrows that proudly squawk from the rabble of your soulheap, a bloat of rotting tires. you grow humbly tired of looking under these putrid rocks, every split in windows, any knothole that loops to the past, listing like a shanty with no doors or chimney on the dock. perception is a bland doghouse with crude furnaces that blast through the clouds of anywhere, hoping to at least mitigate some semblance of why they may reflect the universal last. the rats that philosophize in your intestines irritate you to the point of jamming supposition into your eyes. this harms me much more than you, my sweet universal ingrate. "I am the hobbyhorse. I am the stapler in the mud, the toad in your brain. I am a head full of birds, a future full of apples." |
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PassionatelyRomantic Member
since 2004-01-24
Posts 190 |
besides the inconsistant rhyme scheme this is a great poem! |
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Insomniac Cat Member
since 2003-09-23
Posts 69The Land of the Dadaists |
Thanks for reading! It's in terza rima, so it may look inconsistant at first, but if you follow it through, you will see a definite pattern. "I am the hobbyhorse. I am the stapler in the mud, the toad in your brain. I am a head full of birds, a future full of apples." |
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Grover Senior Member
since 2004-01-27
Posts 1967London, ON, Canada |
This is the best poem I've read at Passions! I enjoyed the images, rhythm and rhyme! It is very good! Bravo! Grover. (P.S. hey guys, watch your typos in your reply posts: inconsistant=inconsistent.)LOL  |
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Insomniac Cat Member
since 2003-09-23
Posts 69The Land of the Dadaists |
Grover, thanks so much for your kind words. And as for the typo...I can't believe I missed that...and I was an English major!  "I am the hobbyhorse. I am the stapler in the mud, the toad in your brain. I am a head full of birds, a future full of apples." |
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