The Dont Ask Dont Tell Overture

Of Scylla vom und zu Karybdis





I shot an arrow
Into the air
And where it lands . . .

. . .



I was told not to care

Ode to McLuhan

The medium is the message
Or so McLuhan said
(Oh, waiter - I'll take that steak medium-well
And don't you DARE skimp on the bread!)
But what really matters most here
What's really disgusting
(MY GOD! - THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
IS CALLING MY CELLPHONE!!!)
Is ...

Sound-bites and fury
Signifying nothing

As Aeolian Harps

As Aeolian harps
On yon pavilion play
And skateboarders careen
Their cotillions where they may
Let all men give condolence
On the hills and by the bay

As Aeolian harps
On yon pavilion play
And skateboarders careen
Their cotillions where they may
Let all men give condolence
Wherever the homeless lay
. . .

V for Vom!

When "dot-dot-dot-dash"
Became deprecated for "dot-com"
Beethoven rolled over ...
...
And a Baroness added the "Vom"!

Adieu

Every Writer must make a decision
When amusement is at an end
When taunts and the critics' derision
Not even Heaven can forfend

So with career now wrecked and in tatters
Unable any longer to compose
This Poet bids the World adieu
Nevermore to ask . . .

FOR WHOM THE NOBEL TOLLS !!!

he Rime of the Ancient Poetaster

RHYME

"In the study of phonology in linguistics, the rime or rhyme of a syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda. It is the part of the syllable used in poetic rhyme, and the part that is lengthened or stressed when a person elongates or stresses a word in speech. The rime is usually the portion of a syllable from the first vowel to the end. For example, /aet/ is the rime of all of the words at, sat, and flat. However, the nucleus does not necessarily need to be a vowel in some languages. For instance, the rime of the second syllables of the words bottle and fiddle is just /l/, a liquid consonant. "Rime" and "rhyme" are variants of the same word, but the rarer form "rime" is sometimes used to mean specifically "syllable rime" to differentiate it from the concept of poetic rhyme. This distinction is not made by some linguists and does not appear in most dictionaries. The simplest model of syllable structure divides each syllable into an optional onset, an obligatory nucleus, and an optional coda.

"There exist, however, many arguments for a hierarchical relationship, rather than a linear one, between the syllable constituents. This hierarchical model groups the syllable nucleus and coda into an intermediate level, the rime. The hierarchical model accounts for the role that the nucleus+coda constituent plays in verse (i.e., rhyming words such as cat and bat are formed by matching both the nucleus and coda, or the entire rime), and for the distinction between heavy and light syllables, which plays a role in phonological processes such as, for example, sound change in Old English scipu and wordu ... "

???

Ananyms!
Anonyms!
Anacronyms be DAMNED!

I hear only SILENCE!


The silence ... of the iambs ...

Borderline

The doctor says my personality is "Borderline"
...

NO WONDER I KEEP THINKING ABOUT NEVADA ALL THE TIME!!!