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I Am Bic

Would I were a king
      or a crazy beatnik
      writing poetry or prose that never
                    rhymes
      and that would be okay
for the world wonts to spin
              but never in
                            iambic pentameter

I could be the sea
      rolling in
            in faultless cadence
            with the tides
      and out again
            in the rhythmic ebb and flow
            that only happens
                            in adagios

And if I were a moon or star
      indelibly expanding
            in vast elaborations
            of a lush lifeless
                            universe
      there I’d lie
      in the careful embrace
                            of dark matter

Could I temper
                            the timeless tumult
                            of the world’s inner workings

      or the symphony of anarchy and order

that wraps about me like a double-stranded helix

                                                                      only to be unraveled by

                                                                                                  the enzymes of time? 

Rich, L. E. (2006, July 30). I Am Bic. Leigh Rich Freelance: five2seven.

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