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If You Pull a Long Face - Part Xxxvi

IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part XXXVI IF you pull a long-famished face Chances are you'd pull derisive looks your way Some might relent Others spite your face For not pulling your weight in every way If you pull a long symbolic face Your words no meaning profound convey Mallarmé's ill-armed ideas make poems fall on face Try E = mc2 : Poem = idea + words2 to force poiea If you pull a long straight face The contradiction might show through the gap in the veil Sure as Rita Hayworth " put the blame " on Orson Welles If you're not sure of the signs in poems you use in braille If you yet pull a long-forsaken face Stymied by photons neutrinos criss-crossed by Cosmic Ray Stop wondering what happened to meaning words efface Just listen to rhythmic rhymes in the musical phrase at play So if you must pull that long-mutated face With time won't ideas coalesce words into Shakespearean play At will stream out of computer softwares at mind-boggling pace Leave neither poet nor poetaster critic nor customer with pay © T. Wignesan - Paris, February 25, 2019

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