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Thursday, 24 September 2009

Second Thoughts About Stoogism


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Even my resilience is limited

The crashing silence of the palm trees

The rubber ball is on its
Eight thousandth bounce
The logic of elasticity
Is growing blurred

It is 5:19 A.M.

I have a feeling
Like being X-rayed
In the privacy of my house





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Palm tree and sun in smoke, Socal
: photo by Alora Manley, 2007
Electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., c. 1900 (George Eastman House)


2 comments:

aditya said...

Very nicely compiled Tom ..

I liked

The logic of elasticity
is getting blurred very much.

Keep writing ..
I like reading you.

TC said...

Aditya,

These Stoogism poems were written some time back while living in Southern California, a place which seems (or seemed to me anyway) to blur all forms of logic...

Thanks, I like reading you too.