11-16-2024, 02:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-16-2024, 02:28 PM by RiverNotch.)
14 September
metal combs and pears and chains
and wheels and racks and ropes
and sometimes, sure, a simple knife
will do, but what about a hollow
bull or maybe screws
or maybe glue one to an anchor
casting them to sea, maybe drag them
underneath a keel, maybe brick them
up inside a tomb, maybe beat them
simply with some whips
and all would pass with not even a scream,
claiming they had, for a favourite invention,
an intersection of two sticks
from which they'd rather hang
metal combs and pears and chains
and wheels and racks and ropes
and sometimes, sure, a simple knife
will do, but what about a hollow
bull or maybe screws
or maybe glue one to an anchor
casting them to sea, maybe drag them
underneath a keel, maybe brick them
up inside a tomb, maybe beat them
simply with some whips
and all would pass with not even a scream,
claiming they had, for a favourite invention,
an intersection of two sticks
from which they'd rather hang