Hey Skip,

It's an interesting experiment, and works best when the opposites are TRUE opposites. That you shape a poem that is sensical out of this is amazing.

One can find meanings here that would be impossible otherwise, like:

"Wicked Good Daughter Wife with her Bold Shy Stop Go"

has a precise meaning for me, and I dare not say WHAT that is, nor is there ANY OTHER WAY to say it!

I choose to read these "together opposites" as making a "richness" or pluralism or wholeness--though the poem does demonstrate that this feels (on the surface of words) quite unnatural--feels "abnormal".

Mike





[This message has been edited by closemike (edited 08-11-2006).]


Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)