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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: jbe who wrote (1756)5/17/1999 12:40:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir  Respond to of 2095
 
NOW
Roger Mitchell
A Clear Space On A Cold Day
[please recite outloud in your most hauteur manner (for full effect, naturally)]

Now, and in the face of all bearable
obstacle and impediment, and without
benefit of sanctifying or
otherwise corroborating theory or
device, free of all haunting visions
and insecurities of mind, open
as much to the spider's drool as to
the implacable stone and shadowed marvel
of the hours, in full cognizance and reach
of the huge black wind blowing through our bones,
the needled sperm lash and the, pus-born wish,
with throat extended and deep hypnotic hum
as of armies swarming, in daylight born
and in the darkness born once more, alone
but with those I love now close about me,
I, {your name}, abstract speck upon the void,
reeking with wild and half immaculate
satisfaction, do hereby state and make,
in the numbered presence of my enemies,
the worm, the laundry, and the arch-fiend greed,
a cloak of pure conflicting rhetorics,
a gaudy panoply of smirks, a yip,
that that indifferent brute boo-ha in me
should not go naked or, what's worse, unseen.