50 More Poems for you to Spit On is a worthwhile collocation of esoteric poetry from the joycean pen of the orphic macned. written, would you believe it, over a period of nine startled daze during which the author immersed himself in the waters of the Pieria for the first time since 1989. begob, that was a sweet phase. i fully expected to win the Nobel Prize for Literature until someone put forward the notion of criticism. shortly thereafter, i did a Raskolnikov and realized that nothing mattered...

all we do will wither
our bones will crumble into dust
the letters on our stone will fade
the memory of our face decay

the grave retains all secrets
our fate is that we die
and enter there to exit not
to rest and rise no more

the wood on which our bodies rot
like us is turned to soil
from substance to gas to nothing
from body feeble to spirit sublime

one change precedes another
despair gives way to hope
the moon falls, the sun rises
and from the gloom the shadow begets a husk.

...but on a lighter note, life ain't that bad. i was being mephistophelic and thinking dullish gray. in reference to Onan and the murmur of, i can't recall when it started but i know when it will stop. hopefully, this prefatorial exegesis will serve to attract attention and indeed, induce the cautious reader to proceed with undue haste to my expectorative offering. i stand absolved of any subsequent disenchantment convinced that proper warning has been given of the obnubilatic nature of my work...ab uno disce omnes.

© 2001 Macned
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