06-06-2017, 03:57 AM
Crashed his hearse
on a one-way cul de sac -
Here all cul de sacs are one-way dead-end circles that we drive along the right-hand side of the street. I love the imagery even more when hearing that the intended vision was a dead-end street that's one-way. How does one leave a dead-end one-way street?
Survived his widow -
and he then drove back -
Was he carrying his widow, or did she die in the crash? And if he drove back, he went the wrong way on the one-way cul de sac, emphasizing his contrariness.
His ghostwritten prose,
all autobiographies …
… tweak’d Pinocchio’s nose
with false tautologies -
Very clever. Tricky digesting this one. I, too, had to look up tautology, and love the oxymoron, the ghostwritten autobiographies. I'm assuming he's writing about himself, but telling fish tales about his life presenting it as that of another?
Consistency, veracity
with him had died
He’d only be truthful
when he said that he lied
I'm not sure about him having died. Is that part of the contrariness? This is where it spins on its head because up to this point I read him as alive. A living person can have a contrary spirit as well as a ghost. Overall, a truly engaging and clever bit of writing. Nicely done.
on a one-way cul de sac -
Here all cul de sacs are one-way dead-end circles that we drive along the right-hand side of the street. I love the imagery even more when hearing that the intended vision was a dead-end street that's one-way. How does one leave a dead-end one-way street?
Survived his widow -
and he then drove back -
Was he carrying his widow, or did she die in the crash? And if he drove back, he went the wrong way on the one-way cul de sac, emphasizing his contrariness.
His ghostwritten prose,
all autobiographies …
… tweak’d Pinocchio’s nose
with false tautologies -
Very clever. Tricky digesting this one. I, too, had to look up tautology, and love the oxymoron, the ghostwritten autobiographies. I'm assuming he's writing about himself, but telling fish tales about his life presenting it as that of another?
Consistency, veracity
with him had died
He’d only be truthful
when he said that he lied
I'm not sure about him having died. Is that part of the contrariness? This is where it spins on its head because up to this point I read him as alive. A living person can have a contrary spirit as well as a ghost. Overall, a truly engaging and clever bit of writing. Nicely done.