I posted this poem in February, but was unhappy about an original final stanza. I’ve tinkered a bit & chopped the stanza so here it comes again.
SUPERSTITIONS
Across my godless sky a magpie skids,
a barcode flash, trailing misfortune.
I paint a cross onto the air.
And then that night it’s the full moon
bagged in clouds swollen with snow.
I must drop three wishes into her milk-heart
before the clouds hustle her away.
In a last heartbeat of light, I invest a trio
of dreams. But silently, as if to confound
negotiation, snow fills the bowl
of the universe, the sky falls to meet
the rising earth and the seams are drawn.
A sprinkling of neologisms, these from the Washington Post. I’ve had them taking up folder space for a while now, although one or two might have leaked out in the last barrage of newspeak that I launched towards the end of last year.
Memorise at least four & work into everyday conversation within the coming week.
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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