Dissection

by Christa Young

Hey golden daddy-O shining-
May I change course without iceberg,
Could I blaze unharbored through
the watch fires of the night?
So many artists without a forum!
All these madmen without a quorum!
Shall I insert a dash- a Dickinson's disciple-
plucked young and raw and sewage-bathed
-dash -dash -dash -!
(Soul to ink makes for difficult wire)

[By juxtapositioning "may I" to "could I" the
author creates a derogatory nuance spread
cream cheese lightly over the symbiotic
syllables spaced with a free abbacdyz rhyme
scheme and completely daffy unparalleled
structure WHICH reveals a deconstructionist
world view inherent, and that is what it MEANS
and that is what you must say and think and
perish for, you must eat and argyle sock and
drink electric carrot juice and above all,
NEVER explode as aluminum
across
any kind
of sky- ]
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