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Local Parasite
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0 posted 2002-12-25 01:40 PM


(this is completely retarded.  I wrote it while I was waiting for someone to come back from "brb" and the last thing she said was "we should watch it sometime."  I apologize if it seems to make almost no sense, I was trying to shroud everything and make it sound as nonsensical as possible.  Fun with connotational purpose?  I guess so.  But the words sound like they mean what they mean, which is my direction.  Thought you could all use an explanation...)

we should watch it sometime

We all the cold could frisk away
Be merry, chill-and-warm-contrary
Simple, very, naught be merry
And bid you merry christmasday

sounds good to me

You hear it pop, behind-above-beyond
The sound of shrill popcornicopia
I love you, marching-mangled grim dystopia
A murky summer pond to drench our feet
You look like beauty, frazzled-mess'd to-neat

fizz-drinks popcorn and couch-watching-movies
all comfy sweaters in a dim sliding light
eyes transfigured and pointed similar, arms entangled in the (mallow)chill of a calm night


We arms and hands and legs and hanging heads
Perhaps it is by future cast
To introvert the present-past
And all could be, what think of me
What think of we, o what could be?
"A-bippy-moar" the music said
"A-bippy-moar-and-moar"

kept quiet, but kept still, hanging delicately downward, rested wonder-o-window-sill
silly children watching movies like silly children
watching the bird in his plastic black cocoon
spin top-to-back endwise
and being happy


We'll watch it all, few hours still
O wonder, carpent-windows ill

Could be a-more, a happy tone
Sun myself, you are my stone

and being happy

[This message has been edited by Local Parasite (12-25-2002 11:27 PM).]

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1 posted 2002-12-26 11:40 PM


How our thoughts can wander when we're discarded by somebody we care about in conversation. What a vivid, emotional journey you have taken us on, my friend. I really enjoyed it...

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.--Jesus Christ

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2 posted 2002-12-27 11:37 PM


What a weirdo. I loved this. Nice use of word-maker-uppering and use of actual words to mean..well..something...weird.
  ~Carly

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
        

fractal007
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3 posted 2002-12-28 12:30 PM


I will have to put this into my library especially for further analysis.  The sounds you've chosen to use and the apparent moods in your language are masterfully drawn, I must say.

You hear it pop, behind-above-beyond
The sound of shrill popcornicopia
I love you, marching-mangled grim dystopia
A murky summer pond to drench our feet
You look like beauty, frazzled-mess'd to-neat


This was great.  The end of the first line is almost magical to me, the movement it causes in my mind's eye.

All in all, though perhaps difficult to understand, I think this is an awesome poem.

"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed, so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh"

-- Magus

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