03-20-2014, 06:34 AM
For me, this is a many-read poem, my mind needing/wanting to unpack all the cleverness in its inventiveness.
But my very first impression of it was simply how sheerly entertaining it was to me (that's a compliment, I assure you). These lines made me especially chuckle and smile:
Far suns from history illume us, a trillion miles away they lie,
then caught in orbs of human humour; a photon dies, a star is born.
Tall trees fall in silent places, distant yet by theory near.
Evolution grows the man to morph and model each new trait ;
anthropomorphic genes hang from us, pinned like medals to our chest.
Anyway...me like.
But my very first impression of it was simply how sheerly entertaining it was to me (that's a compliment, I assure you). These lines made me especially chuckle and smile:
Far suns from history illume us, a trillion miles away they lie,
then caught in orbs of human humour; a photon dies, a star is born.
Tall trees fall in silent places, distant yet by theory near.
Evolution grows the man to morph and model each new trait ;
anthropomorphic genes hang from us, pinned like medals to our chest.
Anyway...me like.
You can't hate me more than I hate myself. I win.
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."
"When the spirit of justice eloped on the wings
Of a quivering vibrato's bittersweet sting."