Maybe it was feeling cross at the time. Maybe it was feeling poorly?
After all, it had just been written.
On 4/8/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've already asked it, and it said, "No."
>
> Hal
>
> "Cross / a border every day, and leave
> your luggage in the station."
> --Wendy Battin
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:51 PM, MC Ward wrote:
>
> > Hal, for what it's worth, I think this sonnet wants to
> > be a prose poem--Candice
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Sonnet: In Fine Fettled Sleep
> >>
> >> Between the artificial hills and the more pragmatic
> >> wavelets, back in the analog age, mathematical
> >> proofs
> >> proved worthless. Some angular deflections invited
> >> trisections and later even quintisections, among
> >> other
> >>
> >> impossible feats. Foolproof analogies calibrated our
> >> volt-meters, reminding us of the First Law of
> >> Baseball:
> >> There's no Game Five after four have already been
> >> lost.
> >> Humdrum solutions to perfectly humdrum problems.
> >>
> >> "Das ist kein Mann!" sings Siegfried italicly,
> >> Brünnhilde
> >> resting yet in fire-shielded sleep. What's most
> >> remarkable
> >> fails to surprise us any longer. All true theorums
> >> are trivial,
> >> as she once sang. We joke about this with
> >> co-workers,
> >>
> >> but never to the boss. And yet, keeping the door
> >> open just
> >> a crack allows x and not-x to sweetly cohabit the
> >> room.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hal
> >>
> >> Halvard Johnson
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> >
> >
> >
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