Genesis

Genesis - an art work by T Newfields


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I.

All literature is but a fossil –
a skeleton in the closets of history
until approached with interest;
curiosity is a magic key.

Transmute parchment!
Suffuse words with fresh realities!
Chomp widely
but avoid turpentine, please.

II.

Somehow texts must be defossilized
& fomaldehyde makes an interesting drink.
Though paint thinner works well enough
poetry dissolves many stereotypical links!

III.

You are more than a fossil –
so keep away from absinthe.

To analyse discourse rationally
something better than fomaldehyde is needed.

The dead are all around us –
so keep moving!

Reading is a sort of magic
& it's worth remembering –
errors are seldom as they first seem.

Shu: (coughing) Isn't there's too much crap here?
Ella: Agreed. The poem should be fermented.
Juanita: (sipping some wine) Or festooned as fey & fickle folly!