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Free verse № 279

Meta

Member since 2001 · Posted 16 Mar 2002 · 16 comments

The form of Form sits on a shelf... once it was red but that wasn't itself it sat in a window but it wasn't seen so I put it away and it's never been it isn't beautiful for nothing is added it isn't large for it hasn't been fatted it's a template, a void, with hollowed out edges that cannot be built with hammers and sledges it once wasn't built and it'll be so again and some time for sure it's part of a plan but not part of a plan, for plain it is so: a plan of the plans that a planner can know. as a plan of the plans that a planner can know it encompasses all the plans that can grow and the plans that can grow contain it in whole but of them it partakes in no manner at all. now the plans it contains are all good and fine but we've got to look at it, just one more time if this plan of the plans is a thing that exists then there's something that follows, that a sane mind resists. that if there's a plan, of the plans that can be then there's a plan of that plan, and then it repeats so there's a plan of a plan of a plan of a plan and so on and so forth, without ever an end.

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16 comments

[0] anonymous 22-Jun-01/10:22 AM Reply
The ending is nice.
[0] anonymous 15-Oct-01/6:57 PM Reply
Seuss-ish.
[n/a] daryash-koh 10-May-02/9:16 AM Reply
Read lao-tzu much?
[9] deleted user 11-May-02/2:52 AM Reply
Go with your Seussyness.
[0] anonymous 13-May-02/3:13 PM Reply
Dr. Seuss?
[7] necroscope7 10-Jun-02/12:09 PM Reply
It goes well until the sudden insurgence of the word plan in all its many forms, which just starts to grate on the nerves.
[5] -=SeTTle=- 30-Jul-02/8:28 PM Reply
Doogie Hofsthader (incorrectly spelt) covered this material.
[n/a] nentwined 30-Jul-02/10:53 PM Reply
yeah. This poem was written in response to a greek philosophy class. I've read (most of) Godel, Escher, Bach... it really dragged on. Didn't care much for the treatment. :)
[7] <~> 27-Aug-02/1:32 PM Reply
delightfully convoluted, yet clear.
[9] <{Baba^Yaga}> 28-Aug-02/5:58 PM Reply
windbreaker. hot stuff! 9/10.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 29-Aug-02/4:42 PM Reply
JESUS CHRIST TAKE IT AWAY
[8] alexander 30-Aug-02/1:05 AM Reply
Infuriating and good at the same time-8/10
[9] Christof 30-Aug-02/3:26 AM Reply
Now you can see why Plato got those terrible headaches. I wish my sane mind could resist this, but I think it's great.
[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 30-Aug-02/9:01 AM Reply
Pffff. A poem about the third man objection might have been interesting, but this one isn't. What's interesting about this poem is that it manages to convince people it is interesting.
[n/a] horus8 31-Aug-02/2:57 PM Reply
tout est perdu fors l'honneur!n
[7] Heather Dee 6-Sep-05/2:40 AM Reply
Wow that was a tounge twister