Copyright (c) 1995, 2016 by T Newfields. {{CC-BY-4.0}}
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.
Somehow texts must be defossilized
& fomaldehyde makes an interesting drink.
Though paint thinner works well enough
poetry dissolves many stereotypical links!
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! |