They’ve Stripped the Forest for Babble
Reams and reams The black-ink symbols innundate Flooding consciousness with printed words that possess Definitions but know no meaning Tectonics, Aardvarks, political history of Byzantine hydraulics. Dewey decimal has run rampant Chasing, haunting, even lurking in the restroom Parasitically clinging to the walls Stark and blatant waste or frivolous gaud Venus dies -- -- -- nonsensical nausea The ice-age is returning
— Zumwalt (1974)
Comments on: "They’ve Stripped the Forest for Babble" (5)
the trees are talking? their legacy lives on in our books? save the trees the need to be spliced into our storylines and go type on a computer
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p.s. that last comment was not meant to be harsh. it was just my initial reaction to the poem. i say that any reaction at all is a good thing, but then what do i know? I am a super rookie to the blogosphere.
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seasidenoel,
Thanks for the 2 comments! (This is one of my all-time favorite Zumwalt poems! It contains those elements that are the hallmark components of most later Zumwalt poems: irreverence, clever and/or catchy title, humor, irony and meaning at two or more levels — one at the obvious level and at least one at a inferred, implied or symbolic level.)
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Great poem!
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very truthful words.
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