Day 74

4/22/2007

How long
Is a song?
O Lord,
How long?
A second?
A minute?
An hour?
A day?
A decade?
A cycle of Cathay?
...
As Long as Lowe,
And Keith
And Albee;
It Was,
And Is,
And Always Shall Be.
This is the string Time may not sever,
This is the music that lasts forever,
This is the Womb,
This is the Tomb,
This is Alpha, Omega, and Oom!
...

--From The Screen with the Face with the Voice by Ogden Nash

As acronyms and slingy slang
Are tossed at us with click or bang.
A whittled thought is treasure rare
A dimpled, simpled muse-on-air.

But droning, drifting filler fare
That is the "uh" or "well" of voice.
Knocks a thought-strand off its feet:
Keep the meter, but lose the meat.

As Twitter asks "What are you doing?",
("Folding laundry" says lifesagrind)
And Tumblr tries to keep things moving
It don't even have to rhyme... uh, rhynd.

Take a leap, take a leap onward,
Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred words.
Now down to a precious few.
("September, November...")

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