In the Footsteps of Giants

Written November 18, 2013


I'm a postmodernist in an existential environment
Wondering what to do with nothing
What's the meaning of life?
To be swallowed up by entropy
Imploding what it means to be alive
Watch it rain down a marvelous parade
Of lights and sounds of what surrounds
To celebrate a Pound of Pynchon's pithy
Two words one line
No meaning at all
Canvases as bare as the backs of bureaucrats
Filling in the footsteps of giants
Going toe to toe with Pynchon
Feeling fists that Pound
But it's too bad
Got knocked out in the first round
So as gravity pulls me down
And rainbows surround
Take me out by the crying lot
Hang me by the tree that forgives
Along the sidewalk that never ends

Copyright © | Year Posted 2013



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Date: 3/27/2014 8:09:00 PM
oh MY such angst in this one. I LOVE it. Your writing seems intellectual and I do not really know every single allusion you made, but the gist of this is marvelous to me. I don't think I have read you before, have I? Hope to keep seeing you around.
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Brandon Carter
Date: 3/28/2014 11:50:00 PM
Thanks!!! I appreciate the compliment! You've checked out a couple of my other poems and liked them too. Definitely check some more of mine out if you want! I keep tabs on your stuff too. I especially like a lot of the free verse you've written recently.
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