Thursday, April 20, 2006

Poetry Thursday: I'm Not Dead



Well, you were probably all wondering where I've been lately. The answer is stupid old Detroit. Again. Okay, actually I'm in Ypsilanti, Michigan, but Detroit is close enough. I've also been working on my new destined-to-fail money-making scheme, but more on that later. Now that you know that, on to the poetry...

A Conceited Mistake
by Vasko Popa

Once upon a time there was a mistake
So silly so small
That no one would even have noticed it

It couldn't bear
To see itself to hear of itself

It invented all manner of things
Just to prove
that it didn't really exist

It invented space
To put its proofs in
And time to keep its proofs
And the world to see its proofs

All it invented
Was not so silly
Nor so small
But was of course mistaken

Could it have been otherwise

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