Quoting Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>:
> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>
> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>
> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>
> And if we can’t have that we’d have to wonder why. Or, if
> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>
> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>
> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
> So we’ll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>
>
> Hal
Oh , Hal, always a tingle or several reading your sonnets.
But copacetic?!
First up on Google is:
WeirdWords
COPACETIC
Fine, excellent, going just right.
It’s possible that this word has created more column inches of speculation in
the USA than any other apart from OK. It’s rare to the point of invisibility
outside North America. People mostly become aware of it in the sixties as a
result of the US space program—it’s very much a Right Stuff kind of word. But
even in the USA it doesn’t have the circulation it did thirty years ago.
Dictionaries are cautious about attributing a source for it, reasonably so, as
there are at least five competing explanations, with no very good evidence for
any of them.
etc.
best from Max
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