Scouting for Mice
Stupidity, my carapace
The bionic ant said to it's ghost
Little reckoning on what it had in store
Or on the ramifications of its personal dialectic
Edification, elucidation, and clarification the ant retorted
Without regard to the eternal ramifications of the aetherial
Portliness of its own composure; and by dint of such false triumphalist rhetoric
But alas none of which prepares us for the sheer grandeur of
territorial reprisals based on a notion of value
denying the square-root of minus one
achieving universal constants
In un-audited time
Unrequited
This spooky doctrine
Will never be vouchsafed to us
Or to our multifarious young offspring
Suddenly the aravice of reason failed the learned monks
Whose bookish melancholy diet foresees neither hope nor holiday
Egg nor ransom in the empty aeons of space and time, indeed
Sheds no shadow on the lovelorn sward but its own
Undying and yet shrinking from the light
Shining with unwithered love
Undeterred
| Contributors: | Roland, Tron, TG, The Agent Apsley, The Attorney, Q. |
| Poem finished: | 23rd June 1998. |