FEAST OF WORDS: Reflections on Literary Verbiage

    There's a weirdness to the food poets eat:
    many move from plate to plate
    combining foods, comparing flavors
    & inventing dishes
    ordinary folks kunsider effete

    Indeed, most are queer in matters ah taste:
    raving about cranberries in absinthe
    while moving from free verse to sonnets
    or digesting shaved lemon peels
    with garlic flakes

    Forgive them if they gerp:
    most have a tendency toward
    verbal gluttony
    which is relieved
    when fresh air meets
    unexpected meaning

    At the banquet of poetry
    the distinction between poison & food
    is not always easy to make
    and as some gorge on sharp olives
    others chew on rare implications
    while most avoid obscure grapes

    Ahh -
    so much verbiage
    so much waste!


Juanita: (pausing in reflection after reading the poem) I must admit I like this poem. 
         I think this author is at his best when he acknowledges his own absurdity and foolishness.

Jack:    (chuckling) I wish more politicians would do the same.


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from Lit-A-Rupture: A Post Literary Construction by T Newfields
SUMMARY: Some semi-coherent misanthropic thoughts about poets, politicians, and lawyers.
KEYWORDS: cocktail chatter, misanthropic musings,  pessimist parleys, tedious tête-à-têtes
 
Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2000 Taipei ⨳ Finished: 2021 Yokohama 
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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