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I got the idea for this one from Kafka’s short story Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor. Those weird bouncing balls really freak me out, like someth..
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Desiccated youth has bones like
cork,
So
porous strong in cells.
Lost
time perfuses emptiness.
And
heavy dolor quells.
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Supine, roads sprawl so lazily
That
they collapse to planes,
Not
aiding stumbling travelers
As
knotted sinews strain.
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Terence, this is stupid stuff: no beer here, just entropy. I put a trochee in the second foot of the first line of the fourth stanza for the harshnes..
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Badinage and Persiflage
Make
such a merry pair,
Chatting
and bantering all day.
No
spiteful gossip there.
Each
goes witho..
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If I recall correctly, Diogenes Laertes told this story about Diogenes the Cynic, minus the moral. Too many Diogenes’s!
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another poem in ballad stanza
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Black shadows are all sycophants
That
mimic every shape.
White
shadows seal their bearers up,
And
bury what they ape.
Black
sh..
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The crystals groan, whenever
crushed
Under
a melting tread.
Snow
faithfully fulfilled its oath,
And
did just what it said.
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The elevator’s sealed its
lips.
It
keeps its secrets well.
Inside
might hunch a nameless face,
I
really cannot tell.
T..
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