Sunday, October 20, 2013

4694. NOMENCLATURE HAS IT

NOMENCLATURE HAS IT
The scientists agree the universe has no limits,
that the unending dirge of time will go on indefinitely,
the every cry rings at a Heaven's door. It does seem
like that sometimes. Even here, in the corridors of
a dark Wall Street canyon, there are things to be
seen and done, and others not. Giving names to
all the animals was only the start of things.
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We missed our mark most times since then.
There are no branches over these streets,
though these banks have many. That sounds
so bucolic, does it not  -  though I mean trees
and the rivers others may think I mean banks.
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So much of this is personal frenzy, and I do like
interior-narrative jokes. Close that new book, wastrel.
You are not made for this declasse brood and you'd
better move on. Everything you call something else
has probably another name altogether.

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