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Re: 'poetics' and celebrating emotion
Posted By: Issachar, on host 207.30.27.2
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2001, at 07:22:43
In Reply To: Re: 'poetics' and celebrating emotion posted by Sam on Tuesday, January 30, 2001, at 07:08:19:

> > > Kiss me again!
> > > In the moment I broke from you,
> > > I knew nothing
> > > But the suddenness of parting,
> > > The brief, giddy tumbling of the mayfly,
> > > The unraveling of the world
> > > As its keystone falls away.
> > > Kiss me!
> > > The thirst of Tantalus is on me.
> > > Let me drink and drink
> > > And know nothing but the drinking
> > > Nothing but the press of your lips
> > > And the tightening knot
> > > In the middle of me.
> > > Kiss me forever!
> > > Let us cling to each other,
> > > Waist-deep in the midst of the Lethe,
> > > Past and future swept away
> > > In the current flowing around and through us.
> > > Oh, kiss me again!
> >
> >
> > Touch me again!
> > In the moment you broke from me,
> > I knew nothing
> > But the emptiness of longing,
> > My ears filled with far-off thunder
> > And my vision with the vast tracts
> > Of a distant wasteland
> > When its spring rainfall burns away.
> > Yes, hold me!
> > The hunger of Oureboros consumes me.
> > Under your caress alone
> > The tremulous fires burn sweetly,
> > Satin'd honey and cornsilk locks
> > Glowing from warmth to warmth,
> > Slowly loosening my Gordian knot.
> > Come, embrace me eternal!
> > Let the very flows of the Lethe
> > Be parched dry in prodigious recall,
> > Drawing the nectar of Mnemosyne to memory.
> > May this moment stretch forever --
> > Oh, hold me and kiss me again!
>
> Oh, taste me again!
> Consume me in your Cerberusian jaws,
> Caress me and crunch me like the Cyclops,
> And, with your sweet swallow,
> Plunge me into the Charybdian tumult of your stomach!
> Oh bathe me in the tender Styx of your small intestine,
> Imparting to my soul your protection of love.
> Yes, eat me!
> Secure in the Pandora's Box of your torso cavity,
> Where no raven will eat up my hiding place,
> Block my ears from the call of the Siren,
> And may your digestive system's efforts to expel me
> Be as futile as the weary labor
> Of that one that guy was supposed to push a rock up a hill
> Which kept rolling back down just as he made it to the top.
> Oh, taste me again!
>
> S "profuse apologies to Issachar and Wolfspirit" am

ROFL!!!!!

Sam, you rule! Gawd, that's a RIOT.

Iss "that one guy would be Sisyphus, which you probably know anyway" achar