Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 23:58:12 -0400
Subject: [ark] Re: sorry, The Entire Western Canon

In alt.religion.kibology, plorkwort@gmail.com wrote:

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Marshmallow

1.
Among twenty catapult arms
the only moving thing was
the flame off of a marshmallow.

2.
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
Like an Aethiop with three burning marshmallows.

3.
The semiotic blankness
of a single marshmallow:
Passive and blank.

4.
Is this the Ewig-Weibliche?
A soft round whiteness
Waiting for quickening flame?

5.
I do not know which to prefer:
The beauty of Eve's
marshmallow-fed earth
or the splendor of Isis's
marshmallow-spangled sky.

6.
The long arms of trebuchets
marched across the sky.
With barbaric yawps,
The shadows cast by marshmallows
screamed across the sky.

7.
O thin men of the movies,
Why do you imagine so many drinks?
Can you not see the oblivion
Offered by kind marshmallows?

8.
I have known them all already
In their waning flames -
si questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse,
I would still have known
The fires dying with a dying fall.

9.
When the marshmallow flew out of sight
It marked the outer circle
of geosynchronous orbit.

10.
At the sight of marshmallows
Flying out of an orange-colored sky
Even the bravest Martian
Might hide in a cave on Barsoom.

11.
Because I could not stop for Lunch
It kindly stopped for me
Our sandwiches of honey and Fluff
Were eaten on the T.

12.
The smoke is rising up forever.
The marshmallows must be burning.

13.
It was evening all afternoon
In the purple-black of the sky.
Inside the orbiting marshmallow
Lurked the seeds of a new creation.

plorkwort.
-- 
Septimus: So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.
Thomasina: Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.
        --Tom Stoppard, _Arcadia_