sousapalooza
by the quarter note we march
by the grace of God we play
epaulets and oomph and starch
pro patria on display
celebrating independence
stirring steps with knees brought high
borrowed valor hot air blend hence
lutefisk packed up in lye
merrily we reach crescendo
jollily we reach the exit
many concerts round the bend o
we got muscle and we flex it
surfeited subsurface access
the street is torn up
the hydrant across the street is uprooted
and it is a jaw dropping seven feet long or so
..
local residents ignore the ROAD CLOSED signs
to wobble their way home and away from home
..
the noise is incessant from 6am to 5pm
and then the silence is somehow high-pitched
the neighborhood dazed
in the gravelgrit haze
..
but the crew has been good about cleanup
and the asphalt saw cuts fine and true
and the waterlines look new and sturdy
and the street will be flatly unlumpy
and the sidewalks less dangerous too
..
that’s our tax dollars truly at work
tax dollars not frittered away
well worth a fortnight’s inconveyance
to be bringing us up to okay
in this fell administration
chess is played with pawns as queens
with the sacking of our nation
rife with thieving wayward means
and pretension grift and lying
has the press repressed and boxed in
with recriminations flying
and the ticking of the toxin
..
we need action free of static
to ensure such chaos quelling
but the bomb’s on automatic
and the good fight isn’t gelling
all the well-forged fine alliance
has been twisted all awry
absent decency’s compliance
we may curdle up and die
Frank Sinatra is thought by some to be the Greatest Crooner of All Time. Ronnie O’Sullivan is widely regarded as the Greatest Snooker Player of All Time. Today I had the whim to put two GOATs in one pen.
Microwaves containing messages and other information pass through our bodies an uncountable number of times a day, thanks to cell-phone technology and radio and stars. Though the above “jumbletron may seem busy unto incomprehensibility, it is laser-neam coherent compared to what a cell tower handles in a single second.
The “Rest Stop” rectangle is the simplest–one word per line, the last one hyphenated.
Ramifications
Entitlement
Seraglio
Two-step
Within each word a smaller word is emphasized.
IF
EME
RAG
OS
The word Eme is “chiefly Scottish” for Friend, according to the Scrabble Dictionary. The word Os indicates a bone, e.g. “os trapezium.” It might also mean the left eye, Oculus Sinister, or Operating System.
Discussion of the other rectangles will probably occur if my manuscript-in-progress ever see the light of day.
It never ends
It drains your soul
And Grief contends
With Stones To Roll
And Endlessness
And Lack of Fun
And What a Mess
We’ve just begun.
..
It must be done
And so let’s bless
The ship we run
Tight, more or less
And grab a bowl
And make some friends
And tell some droll
Tale and ascend.
Moving Ground
May plowed Earth goodness bring
Or probe with metal finger
Vivacity–trade too
In circulation you
Need stagnate ne’er again
Go Under now & wend
..
n.e.s. #181 of 480
the lady flings her arms persuasively. her left word balloon says “stablize” (not “stabilize”) and her right word balloon says “Zing!”
I love the look of land shifting beasts, and when one of them parked in front of the house I took a picture of it, and have started a sketch of it, and now I have the spine of an acrostic poem about it. The sketch and the poem will come around in due time, but when they do these early stages, fresh with undeveloped DNA, will be gone. I thought the balanced simplicity of them was worth preserving, just as photos are taken of a construction sote’s groundbreaking ceremony.
Any questions?
