It's True, The Earth Is Flat edit 1 (Tiger, Tom, Achebe)

[71degrees]

It's True, The Earth Is Flat (a response to Dale's Fresh and Young)


I hear your pleas to start again,
your longing to reclaim youth's yang,
to wear again the supple skin
as if life were a boomerang.

Am I the only one who feels
one lifetime has been quite enough,
whose fractured soul still quakes and reels
at images so sharp, so tough
to comprehend as human cries
ring out to heavens born of dreams,
who's had their fill of truth, of lies
and soured on unending schemes?

I wonder if I'll feel the same
the day I'm stepping off this plane.

Could cut "to start again" or "to reclaim youth's yang" since they both say the same thing. "yang" has a little more jazz to it, I guess, although haven't we overplayed yin/yang enough? That's like an '80's thing. Or maybe it's 60's...I forget.

like the boomerang effect. Especially early on. Not sure why you would be the "only one" to feel these things. The whole second stanza is kind of whiney. I confess I haven't read the initial poem that triggered this response so maybe I'm being a bit harsh.

Ending is boss.