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Kicking the Box

Something to talk about
thinking about the box
What is in it What is made of
What is in between the corrugated hallways
What is outside the box
and how does it feel
The many face of a box
whether it has top or not
Taking the concrete crate
making it abstract but knowable
Watching as words become
the paint to color the box
springs to make them leap from the page
Grasping outward spiraling on end like a diamond
depending on the shape of the box of course
If the box is or is not stationary
If it is an unfolded or folded box
Does it beat within the chest
Does it sing or have wings
Inside is it warm or outside in a storm
Is it rigid or a breath upon your neck
Boxing is it a golden ring or storing things
Is it lost crumpled in a bin
Looking from outside the box
maybe it never really was the problem
but the portmanteau a creation to kick around

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Date: 12/15/2016 7:55:00 PM
Everything about the box, loved this interpretation. great write John
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John Beam
Date: 12/15/2016 8:07:00 PM
Thanks, Lewis. I was just kicking around the idea, of thinking outside the box and this came out
Date: 12/11/2016 1:28:00 PM
Etymology of portmanteau (n.) 1580s, "traveling case or bag for clothes and other necessaries," from Middle French portemanteau "traveling bag," originally "court official who carried a prince's mantle" (1540s), from porte, imperative of porter "to carry" (see porter (n.1)) + manteau "cloak" (see mantle (n.)). Portmanteau word "word blending the sound of two different words" (1882), coined by "Lewis Carroll" (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832-1898) for the sort of words he invented for "Jabberwocky," on notion of "two meanings packed up into one word." As a noun in this sense from 1872.
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