Triptych Edit #1

[billy]

i'm still not much wiser but feel giddy that i actually got something from the 2nd stanza. even if i'm wrong
i think i get the ten by ten but wont say what i think it is just yet. the last panel still eludes me somewhat, though if i were to stab it in the eye i'd say creationism, big bang and so on. wish i could be more help.

Edit #1:

Triptych

A “ten times ten” i think i get it
study hall
    looks like
        a sushi house
  to cannibals

Academia
         All you can eat  reads better

It’s very pretty to be
sitting on the quad
eating quadriceps
over a potbelly fire.

There’s really nothing exempt from cannibalism.

* * *

There’s a man with two contorted hands, i know i'm wrong but this part became so clear [stephen hawking]
wrenching light from his optical computer.
Ten ten key keyboards lashed to his sled,
he codes marionette personas to flow out,
to manage, curate, and patronize a little
joke store inside a digital tidal wave.

* * *

a viper is heard
as he awakens
from a night terror

  two steps and
  a creak in the
  balls of the feet

      the hardwood floor bowing

ten by ten
splinter lattices
underneath
     
      as they both dance
      on the floor
      like vapor


Original:

Triptych

A “ten times ten”
study hall
    looks like
        a sushi house
  to cannibals

Academia = All you can eat

It’s all very pretty
sitting on the quad
eating a quadriceps
over a potbelly fire.

There’s really nothing exempt from cannibalism
if you think about it.

* * *

There’s a man with two wrenched hands
pulling lightning out of computers at his desk,
ten ten key keyboards lashed to his sled,
running a little joke store in a digital tidal wave.

* * *

a viper is heard

  two steps and
  a creak in the
  balls of the feet

      the hardwood floor bowing

ten by ten
splinter lattices
underneath
     
      as you both dance
      on the floor
      like vapor


-Em