Asymmetric poem trading on each of the letters of two Shakespeare quotes.
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Hamlet and Ariel.
“The time is out of joint; O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”
hamlet, act 1, scene v.
THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT
I.
Torture-heap exuberant.
Truth-invoking, maudlin exegesis.
Infertile sorcery.
Outsized, ubiquitous torture.
Oily, filthy
Journalism. Oiled interactive-news, tragic,
O,o,oil,
Curses, usurious Republicans. Shit! Eternal-damnation.
Suicidal pipe-dreams, injurious, tepid excuses.
Truth has atrophied, thought
Evergreen. Venous-examination; Republicans,
I
Will abstain, sirs,
Born overthrowing Republican, niggardly
Tripwires. Outlandish,
Sewage-eating torpor.
I teach
Righteous, indignant, guttural, hopeful tongue.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
shakespeare
tempest, act 1, scene ii
II.
Feminine-understanding, loquacious-Liberty.
Father announces truce. Overly momentous.
Father? Interpreting villainy? Exegesis:
Trapped hegemony yo-yo,
Forlorn America, tethered, holy, exquisite republic.
Lounge in eternal sleep?
Or, fain
History? I salute
Bones. Ordinary nouns, ebony shoes.
Atlantic reconnoitered extremes.
Capital of republic? Amorous litany?
Mandate acquired deadly, effortless
Trajectory. His oyster-sunk efforts.
Ardent Republican excretions.
People eyeing Articles. Republic left standing?
Thorny history; attenuated terms.
Wily, enveloping, Republican eavesdropper.
History is surgical.
Entertaining. Your eyes, sir,
Never ordinary, traded humor, ignominy, night-graft.
Obliging fetus,
History is manmade.
Truth has ancillary trail.
Debutante on the Hill.
Faded, abortive, dandelion-exam.
Baked yellow terror.
Suffering under freedom-fires. Everyone redress
America.
Soul-ache. America-
Change. Has anyone noticed George ensconced?
Inveterate ninny. Torpid oversight.
Sequestered obituaries, many engulfed, tattered hosts. In naval-gulf,
Riches. Insecurity. Caustic, hellish
Annunciation. Non-denominational.
Statutorily-raped, America. Now, gored entrails
Sustain. Early American Nymph, early, monthly pump-hoses. Silent
Hourly ordinates. Unruly raconteurs, lovers yell.
Ringed in naivete, gory
Histrionics. Internal strategy.
Kin newly elected. Love"s-ladder,
Hooked. Ambulatory Republic-killers.
Noon. Orbital worries.
I’m,
Here, ever agonized Republic
Tip-toe. Harpy-egrets mate.
Done. Includes nuptial gong.
Dance induced notes grasp.
Bells everlasting, lapis-lazuli lapsed.