Moji Agha Poet Dramatic Verse

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Chomsky's Ny Times Swooning

By Moji Agha
(April 20, 2016--Tucson, AZ)

Chomsky's NY Times Swooning

"I swoon on the NY Times Op-Ed page,
every eleven weeks or so,"
said Prof. Noam Chomsky,
in the sufi monk's (actual) dream. 

Around noon of the day after the dream
Ms. Bev S. Stohl replied 
to the goofy sufi's appeal for help,
with the possible meaning of the dream--and stuff,
and focused rather seriously
on the number "11" in the dream. 

Citing Pythagoras, the Greek math-ilosopher
Chomsky's "guardian angel" assistant said:
[Ummm...in my sufi paraphrase] 
"Spiritual messages think like numbers."
So "number 11" (a 1 that stutters) 
might be reducing your dream to "number 2,"
so as to avoid being repetitive. 

Could it be that she,
repeating her own dreamy "guardian angels," 
might also mean to say 
that the "spiritual messages" 
hidden in the NY Times Op-Ed page
are usually spread over "2" pages?

Is that why Chomsky swoons there, 
repeatedly, every 11 weeks? 
Did Pythagoras swoon too?

Is Noam Chomsky 
a spiritually angelic repeat of Pythagoras?
(who according to totally unreliable sources,
that often "report" in the NY Times,
was the first person to own 
a "number" of vibrational properties in ancient Greece.)

Shouldn't the NY Times be the one 
who faints from extreme emotion [swoons]
every time Noam reminds them 
of the immorality of propagandistic "reporting?"

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Robert Warlov September 24, 2024 at 2:08 AM I tried to get The Times to grace me with a lifetime free membership as a mysterium adherent who vibrates and swoons with every Chomsky revelation, but they denied any knowledge of my particular religious sect. We're serious about balloons!