Sunday, September 7, 2008
Beheaded
The word has been undermined
so you think of mattocks
and stained chopping blocks
but it should be a term of approval
as in, that that is one well-beheaded young man,
and he will go places
or her beauty was beheaded with
a diadem of roses that pulsed
with fragrance in the dying light
or for use in a vow
when it must be especially clear
what we intend, as I'll
beheaded home to you
so you think of mattocks
and stained chopping blocks
but it should be a term of approval
as in, that that is one well-beheaded young man,
and he will go places
or her beauty was beheaded with
a diadem of roses that pulsed
with fragrance in the dying light
or for use in a vow
when it must be especially clear
what we intend, as I'll
beheaded home to you
The Great Chain of Being
File upon file, every species standing on the shoulder of another species,
every individual within each species standing atop the one almost as worthy as him,
but not quite, like the rings of saturn that go on forever,
and somewhere in there is the least worthy person, standing on the shoulders
of a perspicacious ape, or maybe the ape has eclipsed him already
every individual within each species standing atop the one almost as worthy as him,
but not quite, like the rings of saturn that go on forever,
and somewhere in there is the least worthy person, standing on the shoulders
of a perspicacious ape, or maybe the ape has eclipsed him already
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