Perennial Measure: Sperm Cell That Refused to Proceed to the Womb’s Egg

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Sperm Cell That Refused to Proceed to the Womb’s Egg

What else can I write about if I must always fornicate under

consent of the king? How

else can I adjudicate alliances if I am to play this gentlemen

only ladies forbidden game?

How maledictive, fictive, and irreparably parabolic, kryptonite

to all human superflights.

What else can I sing of if not penance for imagining a swing,

i.e., with absent swingers?

Not soft as rosebuds, an overdose of thorns, shall I truly find

you there? Haa-choo! Is’t

you? Careful of the draft, ill-covered lady, it’s only Saturday,

not okay to die acutely

of sex on a men’s holiday. Who will pay their respects, lower

salaries regardless? Who’ll

cry or light a cigarette, or sigh, or fight for Queen Margaret,

or, furious, be equally daring?

Fye upon me? Me? Me? I haven’t even thought of beginning.

I have not even been living.

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About "Perennial Measure," the first blogged poetry volume on this site:

On the seventh day in the writing of this collection, or perhaps already subconsciously during the making of that first poem, it became clear that this series, Perennial Measure (the volume), shall be about the practice of poetry and art. Having laid that assumption down, trying to follow that course, however, I saw that I was able to move later to the creation of pieces on various other themes, as if I was trying to present to my reader those various themes and issues that confront a poet in his life and everyday world, qua poet. But, so as not to veer too far away from my central theme, the series would interrupt that straying again to make me go back to pieces strictly on poetry or art. And that push and pull from the central theme went on to the end of the volume project (which targeted 56 pieces or 56 printed book pages worth). So, approach this collection thus, then, should it please you, and consider reading the last poem, "Perennial Failure," against the first one, "Perennial Measure." Otherwise, you can just approach the section or volume or book how you would rather, as maybe you should. Here is Perennial Measure, the blogged poetry book within this eponymously titled Perennial Measure blogged literary creations site.