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FIGMENTS IV
by Ken HarnischMORAL EQUIVALENCE
I found you insufferable;
You found me bedding the neighbors wife;
Were even
SIGN OF A VAST INTELLIGENCE
I could gaze in quiet astonishment
At the crimson breast of the robin
For hours, while wishing that
The black-speckled starlings who shit on
My car were dead, dead, dead
It is the sign of a vast intelligence,
Supposedly, when one can hold
Two wholly contradictory
Opinions in ones mind at
The same time.
JOHN KERRY, GARDENER
When one beats around the bushes
Rather than cutting them at the roots
One finds they are awfully difficult
To extricate.
12/06/2004 Author's Note: Another in the series of micropoems inspired by my muse, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Posted on 12/06/2004
Copyright © 2025 Ken Harnisch
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 12/06/04 at 07:27 PM Thought provoking material Ken; kinda scary actually in the lack of intelligence from characters supposedly intelligent. |
| Posted by Melissa Arel on 12/06/04 at 07:53 PM It's different. :) |
| Posted by Amy Niggel on 12/07/04 at 06:23 PM Heh I like it. :) |
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