Here is a modest visual puzzle. The solver’s task is to supply the missing letters and to discern what the rectangles and oblongs and hybrids have to do with each other. Further thought may reveal a steady stream of metaphors.
Taking the light rail home from work means 45 minutes of sitting or standing around. Last night I had my iPad with me, and I killed some time with a series of selfies using its Photo Booth feature.
This one is a good metaphor for how I feel at the end of a meat-grinder of a day.
This is a metaphor for the transcendentally cerebral superstar I wannabe, but, given Marie Curie, Carl Sagan and John Von Neumann, among MANY others, know I’m not.
Here the metaphor is We Are Being Watched, by from-elsewhere folk who see with heat.
This one is apt in revealing how deep my depression gets.
This Cyclops metaphorizes fixation; and it’s un ignorable that a certain procreative organ is sometimes referred to as Mr. One-Eye. (I can be a real dick sometimes. So can you, regardless of gender.)
But sometimes the world’s kaleidoscope leaves us O-mouthed.
Lastly, there’s the seemingly Real Me, a one-off metaphor for Work In Progress.
Words, words, words:
The vagaries of language take a hand in giving flow
Here: some might point out Shiloh’s proven neither shi nor loh
Edition alley: pretty Grecian letters in a rho
Here: H, & it’s r e s e r v e d–it’s north of I & south of G
And other language comes in handy also, Boga ti
LORENZO was to Renaissance as Stephen is to Liv
Forefatherhood’s a metaphor to sever or to sieve
Or, more directly, strength of arms is found in FORTINBRAS
Felafel’s awful waffle-doffin’ dolphins off. The shwa
Is insignificant, yet VITAL; dealing with Old Scratch
It well behooves a farrier to bring along a batch
The senselessness of fate is vast. If words would serve to match it
The trick’s to make this mystery and then to not unlatch it
Out of respect for the last line, there will be no notes associated with this page. However, I will do my best to answer queries fully and honestly.
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