CANTO 53 The folks at the cafe

 

The folks at the cafe didn’t much dig STANCE’s poem.

Oh there was a polite smatter of applause

but what stung Stance the most was the titters

ill-suppressed by hands clapped to mouth

rather than against each other.

So he’s back to his wounds, licking the drawing board

to pick up any stray minerals or inspirations.

He’d still like to fuse subject and object,

and maybe he did! But he considers that nascent dragonflies

most likely don’t eat mystic mosquitos;

therefore his oeuvre lacks the objective correlative,

the zinc oxide catalyst, metaphysical punch,

and the corresponding obligation to transform,

and be transformed by, tradition.

Philosophically he may be Eleatic,

but metaphysically he ain’t Eliotic.

Well, Stance is a fighter. Many candlestubs later,

having worked his way through many a classic

and many a critical tome, and by dint

of secret techniques utterly contemporary,

he’s ready to throw big bait to the folks at the Carpe:

SO LONG

by Lance Stance, Ph.D.

Packaging device shines,

heaven of influencing day?

Number large the summer’s May,

of a to thee compare I shall

for allow available bombs nuclear

of is of possession lose nor and destruction,

complete the products commercial hot too.

Sometime into way example, for its dimmed complexion ow’st,

thou fair that gold in towns all of his population.

A with States United the is often wand’rest thou

when brag death shall

nor and finding lovely more art thou more.

Or 1500 of is technology the more,

storage, processing, food decentralized get we unless death,

to starve probably would they what’s running.

Shade, distribution, and his in and up shake

do ownership wide the winds rough are

guns of geometries microns 1.25 of capable disturbance.

Civil bloody a into confrontation

a such turn to likely is America

in lines fab when and gear,

military eye the into way their declines,

sometime fair from fair every grow’st,

thou time to people the lines eternal in and finding buds untrimmed:

course changing cities their flee

would war nuclear future

any in nature’s or chance by darling the are civilizations.

Their abandon and chips VHSIC 1 Phase IC’s see,

can hillsides into dig to going they’re eyes or breathe

can men up hole and as long so high-speed

very develop to outlay billion-dollar beasts.

Like caves mountain in its from payoff big date:

a short too all hath lease fear

with mad go to going they’re summer’s this lives long so.

And a fade, not shall summer eternal thy but reaping

already temperate: more thee to life gives this

and and is Defense of Department the.