Monday, April 5, 2010

"Sanity in Retrospect"

My recollection
of whAt happened
is not what happeneD
as everyoNe remembers
nor arE their memories false.
to underStand is to defy time
and Space, as defined by popular convention.

i Must have been
abAndoned by my
senses, formed aD hoc impressions
all and Nothing
of what i rEmember
iS in the mangled wake of
the Situation not at hand.

hallucinations perMeate
what’s lucid, Abstract molds
wrap arounD
transitions, Needing
air to breathE to die
or not die depending on the Season,
So the rhythm goes

suppose the Music
ends inside the plAce of conception
where the minD eats its own tail
even possibility has a patterN
a brain in flux is stability Embraced
so I Said while i was in motion
Stop.

all that I recall reMains
wrong from the right Angle
of the straight-eDged ruler’s point of view.
curvature causes a warped frame of refereNce
and thE thing about this world,
is that it’S all round
and Spinning.

Not soMething that possesses definition
nonetheless explAined
in packageD parcels
delivered by the toNgue
sent from over seas, over spacE,
unwrapped String unwraveled time,
reality disperSed.

7 comments:

  1. Very inventive use of words and phrases spelling madness. One of my favourite lines is "ends inside the place of conception, where the mind eats its own tail." I could see movement of images and ideas in your poem.

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  2. I really enjoyed this poem. I feel it captures the spirit of Cages' piece and I like the structuring of the poem around the word madness and just like Cage did with Method, you talked about it without talking about it, which I like.

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  3. "suppose the Music ends inside the plAce of conception where the minD eats its own tail." This line a great. I get the sense of confusion with this twisted, almost glaring, phrase. We all experience time, love, and release in different ways. Your poem shootme on a journey through the conscious of an enstranged being, digging deeper into a realm I have yet to travel. The use of MADNESS sparks intrique even before we read on, tempting the reader to challenge their beliefs about time, love and release.

    Jason Yelland

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  4. I just absolutely love the line "wrong from the right angle". It's complete madness. This is a great poem. Well done!

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  5. My favorite:
    all and Nothing
    of what i rEmember
    iS in the mangled wake of
    the Situation not at hand.

    I love the circularity you accomplished with your language (if that makes any sense). The structure also seems very close to the original. I like.

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  6. i liked the part about the mind eating its own tail and i feel like the title adds a lot of information to the piece. without that and the MADNESS, i wouldn't place this poem as being very crazy though. i like the disjointedness of the stanzas

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  7. MADNESS!
    it is madness.
    agreed, wrong from the right angle.
    subtle madness, and the MADNESS puts the little touch to it
    Kept close with the structure

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