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Myopic Labotomized Hubris (Free verse) by Retaliate

The plans on the table pour liquid from the minds of endless madmen The myopic lobotomized hubris of a bodiless head that feeds itself with the invisible hands of miserable men soon the table will be submerged and the only thing left in the room (should we fail to bilge this insanity) will be our anoxiated swollen carcass and an empty hollow head like a chalice floating half-submerged in its own stagnant meningial fluid

Retaliate 8-Aug-03/9:04 PM
I think the dicionaries are incomplete on this matter (oh the arrogance). It is true that a bilge is the part of a boat. This bilge collects water that can become foul and repulsive, leading to the insult of calling someones opinion or words 'bilge' - short for 'bilgewater'. The bilge pump is a pump that removes water from the bilge, and the manual process of bailing water when this pump breaks is sometimes called bilging (although you are correct that no dictionary I can find uses this definition).




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