yes that is different James, and really fun. I think itworks without qwuite
knowing where the third and fourth stanza is coming from - like a compulsive
speaking poem.
cheers
SallyE
,on 11/3/06 11:40 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Something diferent I hope.
> 
> 
> today your reasoning
> 
> is concerned with Jules Verne however briefly
> and 80 days and the balloon you saw
> that had something to do with five whole weeks
> but all up in the air
> all up there somewhere
> where the cirrus blows
> and the hurricane grows
> in spite of our knowledge of nearly everything
> 
> to continue
> you have to admit to names
> semingly at random after confessions of crime
> or as a form of redemption
> for to name is to be real -
> have brilliance in the hegemony of a smile
> 
> that sounds satisfactory
> with the posityion of detail that ultimately escapes us all -
> gives no focus to convention
> or a differentiation of parts beyond form
> beyond the dissembling of reason
> beyond the repetition of small concerns
> that resist the urge to universalise
> like a transient who is so poor
> he is born only to be poor then die
> 
> let this poem be known as how to be didactic with a smile
> or - repetition then you die
> 
> 
> 
> bw
> James