Through sentient, gauzy flame I view life's dread,
quixotic, partial joke. We're vapour-born,
by logic and emotion seen as dead.
Plain cording weds great luxury ornate,
while moon-beams rise to die in Jove's quick day;
I navigate the puzzle-board of fate.
Wait! Squeeze one hundred labels into jibes,
grip clay and ink to form your topic - rage;
await the vexing mandate of our lives.
I rush on, firm, to raid my aged tools,
but yet I touch an eerie, vain, blank piece,
as oxide grown among life's quartz-paved jewels.
Once zealous Bartlebooth, a timid knave,
portrayed grief's calm upon a jigsaw round;
yet now he lies, fixed quiet in his grave.
Just so we daily beam our pain-vexed soul
with fiery craze to aim large, broken core
and quest in vain to find the gaping hole.
- George Perec
2006-12-11 05:44:42
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