Pry the private ; deprive closets set small .
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Author: waltersboxx
My self was born XVII: XLII, Dies Lunae, XI.V.MCMLXIV at Latitude: 33-17'40'' N Longitude: 083-57'58'' W: Jackson is in Butts County, Georgia at an elevation of 705 feet. Interests include reading/writing, currently working on hodgepodge book: poetry, essays, other. Retired, Air Force. Divorced. Ephemeris heavily populated by Taurus: Sol, Luna, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter--my two daughters say--I like old things; classics, I would counter. Interests: formatting documents/tables, classical music *a pattern forms*, Shakespeare, Joyce, Jung: maybe I was born old. Sadly, I have not published anything—more critic than creator, so far. However, English major still tantalized by math.
The Same Told of All
RADIO ANNOUNCER
( Portentously ) Its world ! It is the same told of all . Many . Miscegenations on miscegenations . They lived und laughed ant loved end left . ( Soft beating of the drum and his voice gradually fades . ) In the ignorance that implies impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality . . .
from Passages of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce/ theater adaptation :
— Mary Manning —
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Undersea
O to be a fish shining undersea
Swimming over tining coral color—
A dining wish of smorgasbord brimming .
Swimming over tining coral color—
A dining wish of smorgasbord brimming .
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Obscurus
World is a shadow of God
Stained by sin, like sunlight
Through lampshaded tannin,
A tenet beginning to the slog
Through the fog obscuring, so
Sayeth the bitching religious
Minstrels hymning the hereafter ;
However, no shortcutting to
Heaven, only headbutting
Obstacles till suffering ends .
Stained by sin, like sunlight
Through lampshaded tannin,
A tenet beginning to the slog
Through the fog obscuring, so
Sayeth the bitching religious
Minstrels hymning the hereafter ;
However, no shortcutting to
Heaven, only headbutting
Obstacles till suffering ends .
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Pi
A little past three
Going indefinitely :
Ratio transcendent,
Circumference over
Diameter ; still : constant .
Going indefinitely :
Ratio transcendent,
Circumference over
Diameter ; still : constant .
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on the Bembo semicolon
its comma-half tensely coiled, tail thorn-sharp beneath the perfect orb thrown high above it
— Cecelia Watson —
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Semicolon
Part period, part comma:
Punctuation marking drama ;
What emotion is wrought in
The halls of punctuative thought?
Stop here a little longer ;
Punctuation marking drama ;
What emotion is wrought in
The halls of punctuative thought?
Stop here a little longer ;
Accepted uses :
— Between non–conjunct, closely–connected
Clauses main
— Between main clauses when transitions
Hold central positions
— Between main clauses with commas contained .
Detractors, however, focus on its abuses,
Feeling the mark should be cut ;
They only ‘show you’ve been to college,’
Snarked Vonnegut ; conversely,
Remarking on marks of punctuation,
Dickens found a mark of sophistication .
Countering the colon half’s wanton abhorrence ;
A glorious glyph of punctuative nuance .
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Sequential Existence
t he enemy of man .
Concept ? Reality ?
Does not care .
Does not matter .
Is not matter but affects all .
Everything,
whether ignored, not noticed,
noticed too much :
pain-fully slow ;
all to fast . Gone .
Never soon enough :
all too late .
The pull of the infinite,
far too much—
may I have some more, please sir ?
Where did it go? Come back ! :
Go away !
Always here—suffocating .
Liberating—tick tock .
Just a bit more, tick
tock, just a little, tick ;
can I stay ? Tock .
No answer,
never an answer . No one .
Nothing .
No second chance :
once and done .
Use it wisely ;
you won’t get any more .
Sometimes, too much,
but I keep going :
you can’t stop ;
might as well enjoy the ride,
where it stops: nobody knows .
Does not matter .
Is not matter,
so enjoy it while you can .
Tick . Tock .
Concept ? Reality ?
Does not care .
Does not matter .
Is not matter but affects all .
Everything,
whether ignored, not noticed,
noticed too much :
pain-fully slow ;
all to fast . Gone .
Never soon enough :
all too late .
The pull of the infinite,
far too much—
may I have some more, please sir ?
Where did it go? Come back ! :
Go away !
Always here—suffocating .
Liberating—tick tock .
Just a bit more, tick
tock, just a little, tick ;
can I stay ? Tock .
No answer,
never an answer . No one .
Nothing .
No second chance :
once and done .
Use it wisely ;
you won’t get any more .
Sometimes, too much,
but I keep going :
you can’t stop ;
might as well enjoy the ride,
where it stops: nobody knows .
Does not matter .
Is not matter,
so enjoy it while you can .
Tick . Tock .
— Vermillion Whimsy —
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Pinniped
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE METROPOLIS a commotion draws a crowd . A block away Marina notices and moves near . Before the scene unfolds past the curtains of people encircling, her mind flashes back to the sparkling blue water of Greece, at the foot of a rising village of alabaster and azure . Then monolithic, standing apart from an amazed throng of bystanders, an elephant seal, out of place . Marina snaps out of her daydream and feels drawn to the seal . She walks right up . Then, flailing his proboscis, the seal trumpets, “ Urrumphasquarch ! sclergleblorp . ” Marina understands somehow . She steps up and hugs the seal who whispers something in her ear, and then the pinniped passes away in her arms . Just above the din of sidewalk babble, traffic horns and engine purr, Marina could have sworn she heard a choir of angels singing .
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Base-10
Digital Divisions :
0 zero
Everywhere nowhere
Drones the ground of all being
In didgeridoo
Dreamtime . The empty circle
Cycles ever with subsets :
A dimensionless
Egg with all geometry
Enfolded within,
Empty plenum of plenty—
The fool at the precipice .
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1 one
Source of existence
From the singularity,
Light springs from the hum :
The point of no dimension,
Period that lights the sun ;
The slash of tally
For unary number count,
Set of singletons—
From the wellspring of numbers
God emerges from the Void .
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2 two
Polar opposites :
Duality split from one,
Even in degree
And primeness — so also odd ;
The binary base echoes
Through the digital
Age, the timeline back to square one .
The first nucleus
After the roaring laughter
Expands behind the shadow .
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3 three
Swoops the first odd prime,
Resolution from the dove
Brooding o’er the deep—
Binding quarks for the hadrons .
The simplest polygon is
Key for Platonic
Solids: faces and angles
That seam the cosmos—
Integers from triangle
Numbers, shaped from the noblest .
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4 four
Smallest composite
Counts the bits in a nibble .
The cross and the square
Map relative dimensions
And fundamental forces .
The terrestrial
Measure with grids and seasons
Settles elements
Solid ‘neath the crystal wheel :
The tetramorph faces fixed .
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5 five
The breath of the gods
Distills to stars and planets .
Elixir on earth,
An animus / anima
Essence animates the base
Extremities led
By the head, pentagonal .
Untouchable odd,
Fibonacci shelf of self—
Marriage of gold and silver .
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6 six
Hermaphroditic
Spirit of fire and water :
The two triangles
Balanced on scales unmoving,
Symmetry of the lily .
Form of the fetus,
A spiral logarithmic
Entanglement falls
Into honeycomb amber ;
Nor prime, nor square, yet perfect .
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7 seven
The lyre of Hermes
Instructs the lilt of panpipe
For triangle-square
Hosannas, a synthesis
Of Earth by the hammered sky .
The planet metals
Ordered by the heptagram :
The soul of the world
Resonates with crystal song—
The crown chakra wakes to dance .
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8 eight
Unfolding lotus
Within the oktas opaque,
The hourglass snake
Lassoes quarks into octets,
Vectors surround and stop knot
Regeneration
Spiraling down from spacedust
Into the first cube,
Viral in an upright gait
And a loop of DNA .
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9 nine
The entranced muses
Dance in the crystal spheres :
World soul and planets
Circling over the mixtured
Elements sublunary ;
The sons of Saturn
And Corybantic sisters
Commune with the sun
Rays tripled in Apollo —
The odd square emanation .
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Occupation : Poet . 