05-23-2017, 07:59 AM
Her method involved
randomly selected websites
and a formula for finding
lines of poetry with a dice.
Whenever she played
she cheated - she was a poet, after all
and remembered Breton’s writing;
not quite automatic enough.
Goanna oil fascinated her;
how it leaked through glass
easily, between silica molecules.
She checked the physics
and with an image of
golden oil slipping
through bottles and dripping
from pharmacy shelves
she made that poem
about attack goannas
and the false security offered
by double-glazed windows.
randomly selected websites
and a formula for finding
lines of poetry with a dice.
Whenever she played
she cheated - she was a poet, after all
and remembered Breton’s writing;
not quite automatic enough.
Goanna oil fascinated her;
how it leaked through glass
easily, between silica molecules.
She checked the physics
and with an image of
golden oil slipping
through bottles and dripping
from pharmacy shelves
she made that poem
about attack goannas
and the false security offered
by double-glazed windows.