ludic verbosity for the win
#1:
THERE, down the river on a
BARGE, floats cargo
WORTH a king’s ransom. What a
FARCE to think it won’t sink.
#2:
BARGE in, see this
FARCE in progress.
THERE is nothing
WORTH your time in that room.
#3:
THERE in the Suez Canal, a giant
BARGE stops up the works. Watch the
FARCE as it plays out, wreaking havoc
WORTH millions for its disruption.
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FARCE of common good and common life: to count a person’s
WORTH in currency of culture’s wars. The tribes
BARGE in, dragoon troops, demand oaths.
THERE is a greater mode: of shared delight; for this brief together while, we all live.
WHERE the battle is joined,
RIDER and horse rush and roar,
AGLOW with that red fervor and vision that
PASTE the valiant to their posts.
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PASTE a print with ravishing colors; it cannot rival the true scene, sky and clouds
AGLOW. Rising sun streams out beauty, as at the dawn of creation.
RIDER pauses to behold and thinks:
WHERE do I go from here?
MIDGE clouds bring eerie dusk to midday:
GRAVE clothes for the land with
JUICY host-blood to beckon them.
PLUCK them from clothes before they reach skin.
PLUCK wildflowers for the visit.
GRAVE stone still declaring final date.
MIDGE bites my arm. We, the living:
JUICY prey for pangs of grief.
#1:
LATER, after visits to the
SALON, after the manufactured
MIRTH has faded, then the
GRADE-A misery sets in.
#2:
GRADE the roads for the regent’s arrival; his
SALON must be prepared. The night’s
MIRTH could cement peace now;
LATER, the diplomats can sort out the details.
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LATER generations might miss its role, obscured by form:
SALON, early social network, proto strewer of high
GRADE untruths. Yet also: a mimetic source to spread
MIRTH, witty contagion countering human gloom.
LORRY drivers from many countries
GNASH their teeth as the vultures
SWOOP over the roads that
EXIST as their buffet lines.
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LORRY, if suddenly coming at you, soon to
GNASH you into a wall, like angry teeth, one fell
SWOOP—don’t ask “why not a truck?”
EXIST! Evade! No time to muse on dialects.