Fn around with fibs*

An essential(?) sequential poem collection

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I
am
being
and seeing
and delivering
in the ether of existence

—

Do
you
wonder,
as I do,
why we must argue
’til our faces rue their blue hues?

—

As
I
write right
now these words
borrowed from ages
appear in novel arrangements

—

Da
Da
Vinci
readymade
L.H.O.O.Q.
re-faced a jocund reverie

—

What’s
with
the old
cold-hearted
gold-plated hatred
from those who sold the world away?

—

Half-
turn
staircase
circuits are
switchback toe tap paths
of infinite step ups and downs

—

Re-
think
re: ‘can’t’
as a ‘won’t’
wrapped in cast plaster
or straight jacket-tied attitudes

—

Why
lie
when you
could get by
with fine lines that leave
a reliable lineage?


* “Fibs” are six-line, 21-syallable poems whose invention is attributed to writer Greg Pincus. Their syllable count unfolds line by line according to the Fibonacci sequence:

1 syllable for first line
1 syllable for second line
2 syllables for third
3 syllables for fourth
5 syllables for fifth
8 syllables for sixth