Failed Poet
oh, cosmos,
grant me the serenity the astronauts claim from their experiences . . .
grant me the objectivity of a cosmic POV
i mean
i think i have grasped the tendrils of substance
but what i have touched scares me to death …
Poeming Pidgeon # 10 – Pop Culture now out!
Yours truly prominently featured on Page 83:
“Paradigmatic Values for a Given Syntactical Vacancy” …
Sigmar Polke Untitled now for sale at Sotheby’s for 350,000 GBP …
How is this visual poetry? you may ask with Justification . . . the diablos are composed of text . …
In its obvious outlines, her argument has this shape. Like a doctor, Philosophy begins with gentle remedies and then, when …
to labor so mightily and bring forth such a mouse
c.f. Phaedras: “A mountain had gone into labour and was groaning terribly. Such rumours excited great expectations all over the country. In the end, however, the mountain gave birth to a mouse.”
it’s disappointing, but, OTOH,
making mountains out of molehills
is what i do best . . .
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I am rarely surprised by the very odd events occurring nowadays, but, then again, most of the things I expect to happen haven’t happened . . . yet . . . …
“a man has GOT to know his limits”, Dirty Harry . . . . …