Friday, December 09, 2005

Practical Principles Pertaining To Everything, Part Five

Use as many really big words as possible in your poems. It makes you sound smart. And people enjoy reading them. It doesn't matter if the words make any sense or not. Rules regarding the use of poetic devices are superseded by the exercise of polysyllabicisms. People read those words and they say,
-Boy I wish I was as smart as that person.

Here's an example, so you understand what I'm talking about:
the juxtaposition of a rhinoceros
and snufflumpagus is manifestly
and miasmatically obscene,
discretely. bespectacled visions are
jettisoned upon my pineal gland:
louisiana cardinal-crested woody
woodpeckers, big birds, hoarfrost
within the gangrenous crevasse
between my two biggest toes.
let the sublimation begin.
commence the kingdom, omaha,
nebraska, mutual. we are not
a polis. we are not a polar-cap,
to be debated. we are prescience,
phantasm, sono-vision, categoric
and contaminated, uncontained.

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