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Shagalicious

The slithered shadows trailed my shag rug, in the foothills of the upright weave of flaccid threads. Seemingly chaotic, yet made out of pure design and memory: From the hands of its maker, rolled into the flatness beneath its buyer’s feet. Asking “why” looks for the in-between, vast as forever. The math: A hard one and social, but still a math. More of a psychonomic-politecology. Our bodies are just the same—moving pieces that pretend to be in a vacuum. We aren’t in one, but surely under it every so often. Pieces who poise in passing places and people; pretending preponderance, betraying imposed predilections, to the preferable exposed. Psychobiophysic microcosms invoke the such of a macrosomatic glob that is the everything, at least on this atomic chunk. And so forth, And so forth. The gibberish in the rug is a cortex, and so are we.

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Date: 6/10/2023 6:33:00 AM
This one takes some reading to start to get it. A fav for me because it is on another worldly plane of existence. Closing verse is perfect too. God bless
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B. Joseph Fitzsimons
Date: 6/10/2023 6:06:00 PM
Thanks Robert. Very much appreciated, the title of the poem arrived to me after I wrote this nonsense.
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Robert Lindley
Date: 6/10/2023 6:35:00 AM
O, YES, the title is great as well. God bless. RJL
Date: 6/9/2023 10:12:00 AM
Special ambiguity - !
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B. Joseph Fitzsimons
Date: 6/10/2023 6:05:00 PM
I was literally sitting on a couch staring at my shag rug when these words came vomiting out of my head. Totally ambiguous, like the shadows contrasted in the whiteness of the rug.

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