Melange IV

Pearl One

 

Drain your glass, to the pass of fears,

steps mis-danced, toes crunched in tears,

 

can't believe I'm writing this cheer

for the year, of twenty fourteen.

 

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Rant of old wives, Cant of new,

pullover knitted, threads pulled askew

 

to encase a carcase,

 

living and bound

to a bell

 

cracked, no perceptible sound

of dissent.

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Knit way, knit away, you wize-end old hags,

you folk round embers, warded by gags,

 

guardians telegraphing signs through times,

independent of stars, suns and lines

grime of our type,

 

you work by candlelight,

bless yourselves in blessed rite

of comment.

 

Still imprisoning self in tradition and lays,

laid by whims of hormones and stays:

 

rib of man, our whaleblone, bete noir

prop of our days and this present.

 

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Count your stitches,

tally your knots,

bold are the wifey's

who stray from 'begots'.

 

 

They are the wifey's

who lay the new patterns,

for women, to weave their own dreams

and establish

 

self.

 

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Self, a maxim?

 

Punctuated compassion, interleaf

exposition, with love, interactive;

 

We are more than a rib.

 

We are pro-active,

 

We are life.

 

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( We reive the world,

use mis-direction

to foster our babes,

by favour's attraction,

so Rugby scrum thinkers

use this rejection, score odds

as manic protection,

 

a touchdown

for the lads.)

 

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So, raise your glass

to magnify reason,

or dull your sense

in Paternal seasons.

 

We give a chance

for sporting reasons,

because,

 

We,

 

are

 

Life.

Dec. 13

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Homeostasis in Oubliette

 

 

Borderlines and typset faces

Underscore our choice of cases,

Where are we, but dead, in spaces

Seen, as yet unheard.

 

Peace and weapons

Scrive our reason,

Print our issues of the season,

In the memes that act as prism

For the human race.

 

We act in cells, as if in prison,

Forget infernal cell division, broker facts,

Amend our schisms, lose the whole

While signal fails.

 

Dec 13

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