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Open Poetry #40

The Mangle

Aurelian
Member

since 2007-03-20

Posts 109
TX, USA

0 posted 2007-03-27 09:50 PM

You must go until you find it
Where it’s found’s for you to find -
Let no foolish scoundrel bound it
It’s not found with heart or mind.
And you must ever still do yet more
What more only you can tell-
Said the great twelve-headed Mangle
With the spangle on his tail.
Now this Mangle’s not a man
With a name like Chuck or Ben
But a Mangle is a mangle
And knows one word alone, “again”
For to extract glinting sunbeams
From a pickle in a jar
Or to find a way to Nowhere
Brings a Mangle from afar.
Once upon a swelt’ring snowfall
In the driest ever sea -
Came a Mangle to my doorstep
With desire to mangle me.
Not to mangle bloody carcass
Or suck guts like long spaghetti
But to mangle with my motive
Till I thought my name was Betty.
Or Alphonsus Cadwalader
Boris Simon Bartorete
-The name that sets me trembling
From my eyebrows to my feet-
If a Mangle were a person
Then it would be bad enough
But a Mangle is a system
And that really makes it rough.

TerryW
Senior Member

since 2000-03-23

Posts 779
Louisville, Mississippi, USA

1 posted 2007-03-29 02:21 PM

Oh, I absolutely love this! I couldn't help but smile to myself as I approached the end. Thanks you for making my day a little brighter!

~~Terry

~you reached inside, you touched my heart,
and I am all the better for it~
Terry A. Woodson, Jr.

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