Sunday 11 September 2011

Schizophrenia

Is schizophrenia an audible
precaution in a capricious
mire of escaping, quiet suicide?

It is leverage, like a cowboy or
gladiator fighting similar feuds:
joint conferees of each dire streak.

Go figure such condensable apparatus
in a precautionary tale, the quandary
of being a Magi or Morairty.

3 comments:

  1. Very compelling, but incredibly complex, as is your earlier one entitled "Love". I'd be interested to know what was the inspiration behind both of these.

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  2. Yes, complex! This and 'Love' [and others to follow] are more found 'spam' poems, poems crafted from astonishingly literate spam I received for a brief period of a few months some time ago. Some were published in 'Found In Dissonance' by Smallminded Press.

    I crafted these using a dictionary and you need one to read! They challenge the notion of meaning in many obvious ways: that it shifts; that it is made by the reader; that there is none.

    I hope they complement my more 'traditional' sonnets and reflect my long-standing interest in experimental writing.

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  3. I thought they were part of the spam "collection", some of which you gave me to read. I love the way they challenge the reader and actually, although a dictionary would, in many ways, help with the actual meaning, I rather enjoy trying to make meaning without one initially. Keep experimenting!

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