Friday, November 19, 2010

fingers, clockwork

"Metascript"
(an experiment with syllables)
[begun 11.15]

I was dared by muse
to write a poem
in set form,
each verse judged
by piece count:
an aim no man'd
claim sane.

Boldly, challenge
becomes intent.
Fingers, clockwork,
manage mental mission;
lexemes' wisdom fuels

poetic dominion.
Linguistic endeavour:
embody twenty-four
syllables octuply.

Consequential incarnation:
solitary humankindred's
meditative enlightenment.

Syllabification
autocommunicates
etymological
divisibility.

Hominidae-humanity's
alphabeticalexicon's
hemidemisemiquaver

dodecasyllabicalisationally
floccinaucinihilipilificated.

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My
failure
manifest
ultimately:
omega-locution's
incommensurability
(hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian);
verisimilitudinous
incapability
coalescing
twenty-four
into
one.

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