ludic verbosity for the win
GOING back home to my weak and wonky
HOVEL where the windows are weak-minded, and the door
HINGE, the one at the bottom and not at the top, has a
QUIRK that makes a rough and whinging scuff along the floor.
or
GOING back to my
HOVEL where the door
HINGE has a
QUIRK.
GOING through the village, taking in each
HOVEL, windowless, doors without
HINGE or knob; yet contentment is no
QUIRK but mainstay.
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QUIRK of philosophy to elide coordinates and story. For instance:
GOINGs of angels on a ladder in known place while a man dreams one known night.
HINGE turns in specific time and space, in history,
HOVEL of reason, yet destination of divine descent.
DINER emptied his plate in a
TRICE. ‘It was nice,’ he said. ‘But the only thing to
SULLY my pleasure is offering an
INGOT and getting no change on it.’
DINER, perusing the racing guide, at LUNCH, in a
TRICE, changes his mind re the HORSE, whose
STYLE is in a state of SULLY after
COYLY losing not just the bettor’s shirt but his INGOT.
SULLY we always quotidian joys with grasping?
INGOT discovery proclaimed, converse ceased:
DINER emptied, food grown cold and flavor dead,
TRICE-moment’s flash of profit, now steady habits of living are forgotten.
DINER plate special, once edible, now an
INGOT on the plate; mention it to
SULLY, the short-order cook, and in a
TRICE you’ll regret you said a word.
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NYLON hazmat suits pulled from the
SHELF, respirators and gloves to ward off the
VIRAL invasion, but Captain Trips won’t
BUDGE one inch of ground.
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NYLON, cretaceous soup remixed as fiber,
SHELF space for stockings diverted in wartime to parachutes,
VIRAL demand thus launched by rarity, a valuation from which none would
BUDGE, as, say, Romans were fixated on ivory combs.
COYLY peeking from behind cover, we saw from the
STYLE of tack on each
HORSE: these were no mere
LUNCH customers come to the tavern.
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LUNCH: thermos full of bisque, and hunk of cheese.
HORSE gets carrots and a bag of oats.
STYLE? Who cares on a summer day?—“Oh he cares”,
COYLY speaks the horse, as I splutter out the bisque.