Open Poetry #23 |
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Syzygy |
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Stanley Climbfall Junior Member
since 2002-11-15
Posts 16 |
Competence is requisite to promotion Coleridge says every church almost had the Bible of a sundry translation If "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." Then Victoria’s Secret is a paradoxical oxymoron Hail to the Chief, what a jangle But it always seem to take more than two to tango As long as “the chicken is involved and the pig committed” is logically taken I can’t help but think if the truth is but Canadian bacon My minds eye is but an aphelion to me I can’t tell cosmology apart from cosmogeny What’s dogmatic seems unorthodox So I give it away, for that’s the truth about cats and dogs That’s the truth about cats and dogs When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? To die another day sounds asbestic But I can only afford so many layers so it sounds too hectic The truth is there, but elusive like some penumbra Like a child’s mosquito bites you don’t know the sum of When will I get this whole damn concept of absolute magnitude? When my eyes can’t even register beyond 60 times a second? With Bushleaguers lost in their confidence and the First Amendment rewritten? Heck, I’ll go off in a Saros cycle till I watch it all translated Now you sell the Rosetta stone on your black market Even a fool can understand the hieroglyphics While the appraisers are only interested in the luster Because their thumbs are tucked over the inscriptions Their thumbs are tucked over the inscriptions When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? I’ve heard honest men lie I’ve seen gravity been defied I’ve seen laughter among the hopeless I swear through your laugh I hear a cry In print there is an underlying cursive Every also-ran still wears those Kawasakis Every winner can be the sorest loser Sometimes that velvet glove is just another synecdoche Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file Go, go, get into single file When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? When did we all divide? When did we all become prototypes? To the grand scale? GO, GO, GET INTO SINGLE FILE! GO, GO, GET INTO SINGLE FILE! GO, GO, GET INTO SINGLE FILE! GO, GO, GET INTO SINGLE FILE! [This message has been edited by Stanley Climbfall (12-02-2002 03:58 PM).] |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Stanley, Although I enjoyed the write, your symbols for zyzygy stretch a little beyond my cope. Some of your lines strike like shooting stars and some explode like fire works. But still I fell off the edge. Interesting |
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Local Parasite![]()
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Very, very cool poem... I like all the social commentary that you mixed in. Your choice of vocab is also excellent. I truly enjoyed this. Parasite Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
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