Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:03:02 -0500
Subject: Re: Truth
Status: RO

In alt.religion.kibology, rescyou@spro.net (Kevin S. Wilson) wrote:

On 29 Jan 2003 08:02:48 -0800, ilya_shambat@yahoo.com (Ilya Shambat) wrote:

>Life is my power
strip, plugged to the wall.
>Fire is my flesh
eating bacteria, unstoppable though small.
>In every hour
on tv, the scent of Herbal
>Essences clash
I stumble, I fall.
>
>Burn through the darkness
O! Ye Trusty Flashlight
>Into the dream -
A dream of Jeanie
>Hear me and mark this,
No, not that. This. Right here.
>Truth will not seem
Nor will Honor be (da-doo-be-do-da-dee).
>
>Anything pure
Will not rhyme with manure.
>Nor anything dark -
Dark like the inside of a dark thing.
>Truth will for sure
Rhyme with manure.
>Be nothing like stark -
Or stank, I'm not sure.
>
>Over the ground
in grass stains the Cheer flows.
>And over the lake
the Ricki Lake, the beer flows. 
>Truth coils around
snakelike!
>And then stings like a snake.
If snakes had stingers, that is.
>
>There is a daylight
and a nightlight by my bed.
>When things are true
they're still only things
>And there is twilight
But not A twilight, like in the first line
>When all you knew
all you learned in kindergarten,
>Vanishes, fades
shimmers, shimmies, shakes, and shivers
>And then blends into one -
An N dash, sometimes called a hyphen
>Into the shades
worn by Huey Lewis in that one video about drugs.
>And away from the sun:
And toward the sun without a colon.
>
>Into oblivion
like Carrot Top and Howie Mandel
>Into the void
but only where prohibited by law.
>Into obsidian
and anthracite, and mica, and feldspar, and jasper
>Chasms. Thus destroyed, 
but not beaten. Stirred, maybe, but not beaten.

>Truth yields to lies
though in Hawaii, Truth yields to leis.
>And then soars like a lark
soaked in gasoline and lit on fire.
>When people's eyes
spin counterclockwise, they
>Are tired of the dark.

>http://www.geocities.com/ilya_shambat/poems.htm

I like my version better.

-- 
Kevin S. Wilson
Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho
"You can safely ignore Kevin in order to 
maximise life's experience." --A. Loon, in alt.religion.kibology