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Origami Swansong
By Mathesix
Twisted
Green and Blue
Picking veins from jaundiced sleeves
Watching holocausts through bloodshot eyes and ecstasy
All of my highs fall on lowered ceilings
Freefall to a fathomless pit
My conversations turn Dylan-esque, I am the joker and the thief
I am a klepto of broken proverbs, spitting with a jester's tongue
Spewing forth a gallow's humor
Downing a shot of clarity
Hiding in the smoke and mirrors, wordy dweomers
Five years blind in a three-fold maze
Foglit streets of a purple haze
I wish to drown in nihilist thoughts and
Kafka's metaphors
...Man is beast is man...
I am neither and both....nothing and everything
Chewing on the verbose spine of a philosopher's ruminations
An enlightened revelation of
Cranium pestles grinding agnostic mortar
My alchemical requiem for illumination
Bleeding poetry for release, wearing lips painted black
Kissing the ass of Jack Kerouac
Making sweet love to ink stains on a page...
Find me later in Alexandria's library of mislaid prose
I will be Elizabeth's "Future Foe"
Traveling to Canterbury with Chaucer
Instead...
I am stranded when the Nile ran east and west
And Cleopatra wore a feathered mask
And Persia was more than a carpet
Tread upon me, I am stained in angst
Fermenting in formaldehyde dreams of grandeur
I have never met a lesser soul
If I could only find mine
A trilobite encased in fossil form, inside a shell of amber
Exploding behind the sunlit gaze
When I wanted to be the eighth wonder
More grandiose than the Collossus of Rhodes
Instead of a pawn on a miniature chessboard
I want to be the algorithm that unlocks a cryptographer's
Wet dream of Rosetta stone cyphers
Not a fifth grade multiplication table
Or a discarded artifact broken
When archaeologists search for gold
I thought I would become the gilded idol of revivescent thought
No more, though I implore
Still speak your mind, so someone's voice is heard...
This is my origami swansong
Folded into everything I wish I was, am, or will be
My paper-mache dragon already spilled, hollow and broken
Unworthy of your eyes...
...This is my goodbye.
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© 2006 Joshua Cagle
Published on Wednesday, July 12, 2006.
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On Sunday, April 2, 2017, carlosjackal
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wrote:
This packs a multitude of punches...Each one a joy....Brilliant, brilliant work and highly deserving of POTD. Astounding stuff.
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On Thursday, July 13, 2006, Gideon Lost
(138) wrote:
What a wonderful morning poem alive and popping with words and images. I enjoy your eloquent ways of weaving words. And I love that I have seen that show too. -Gideon
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A former member wrote:
wow; these images and wordcarvings are subtle and superb...and baroquely dark and clear as day simultaneously.. . cleverly crafted and wicked truths at heart. .. .great piece
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On Wednesday, July 12, 2006, AniDayz
(820) wrote:
a completely enticing,all.encompassing fragmentational.(w)hole...brilliantly vocalised, wondrously employed....energy so well balanced and dis.played so poetically, so life-esque. brilliant mister. well done.
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On Wednesday, July 12, 2006, blake
(33) wrote:
'I want to be the algorithm that unlocks a cryptographer's/Wet dream of Rosetta stone cyphers' by the by, who per se, is your muse? quite a talent you have. lyrically intellectual laden in such a poetic collage. impressive.
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On Wednesday, July 12, 2006, Guillotine
(172) wrote:
*applauds* josh, it seems you have outdone yourself here. My favourite one of your works to date.
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