prolixity [couplet into rubai]
What frenzy has of late possessed the brain
though few can write yet fewer can refrain
as we sink into the basin of prolixity
the sound you hear is us gone down the drain
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The first two lines are borrowed from Samuel Garth (1661-1719). (I suppose I felt his showoffy snobbery required more nuanced embelishment.)
posted by david raphael israel at 12:45 AM
6 Comments:
It did. You did it well.
Short but the thoughts behind those few lines could fill a library, have a blessed joyful new year
Very nicely expressed. The snobbery comes through the first lines, but I think you took it over well, and made it your own. Down the drain we go...
Made me laugh out loud.
MS and AG -- thanks!
Speaking of prolixity (or its absence), I'm merely hopscotching to occasional virtual life (via PC at Kinko's) at the moment), being mostly stranded in the real (so to speak) due to mix of (first) travel and (then) computer/DSL issues -- the latter hopefully sorted out soon. Hence the lack of blogging . . .
Meanwhile gearing up for internat'l travel: just got my Chinese visa today.
cheers,
d.i.
i really like these lines, his and yours!
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