MECH MAN JIVE
Manipulative. Fine. All right,
it is a futile effort.
Today I will get a photo taken with Jagaddal.
Today I will plaster you.
Bimal’s taxi is one strange thing.
Sir, this is an awakened god.
So many break down, so many get repaired.
If you want to live, send Jagaddal away.
You’ve worked a miracle, Bimal.
I will have the final answer today.
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 7-6-05 (6:41 PM)
Let me make clear that “Jagaddal” is the name which the leading man, the
taxi driver Bimal, has given to his failing vehicle. I started writing
this text when the opening line was netted as an out-take by the acrostic
process governing the other work entitled
“Mech Man Jive”. It eventually supplanted the initial line of the acrostic
as well. While revising, the first six lines separated themselves without
strain into couplets, and I then deliberately edited the remaining six
lines of the first draft into two couplets, remembering how much I liked
the form of an earlier, freely-written text of mine, “By the Bluest of
Seas”. [http://www.fieralingue.it/corner.php?pa=printpage&pid=769]
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