Saturday, November 7, 2009

it all boils down to taxonomy and hegemony

i. for the incessant requesters of context, we begin again

there are them that want to name the things
and them that want to rule the names,

sniffle, sniffle, sniffle-
boom, boom, boom:

it is only a recurring dream when you find the exit recurring.

I am so glad that that is settled.

ii. stopping the wheel with a peasant's shoulder

when syntax is a fait accompli, the semantic will bite your ass-

hard.

and it will hurt:

like a crocodile dictionary which,
incidentally,

consists mainly of canonical entries for claws and fangs,

and skin that defies those moisturizers
that were hyped in loud and lemon green
when we splashed around the pool:

has anyone seen my swimmy wings?
Posted by gerry boyd at 2:02 PM

14 comments:

  1. Akeith WaltersNovember 7, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    This is cute. It made both smile and think.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 8, 2009 at 2:43 AM

    Besides always making me think, with your words written. Too, you make me smile with your humour within such.

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  3. CathMNovember 8, 2009 at 8:48 AM

    Loving your turn of phrase and the tongue-and-cheek humour. Great piece of poetic comedy :)

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  4. AnkitaNovember 8, 2009 at 10:24 AM

    this is an out of ordinary poem! but i like it :)

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  5. Anders November 10, 2009 at 4:03 AM

    I came to think of an exhausted programmer drinking liquor while coding very late at night.

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  6. Jenny November 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM

    Oh, I pretty sure the “namers” and name rulers would find it damn hard to catch you at work. Your poems will remain impossible to categorize.

    Anglo-Saxon crocodile linguists would probably like to set there teeth in some Germanic linguistic structure. That would keep them busy.

    I like your poem a lot!

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  7. HarlequinNovember 10, 2009 at 5:29 PM

    taxonomy and hegemony... and well conveyed, too. I have to agree with some of the other commenters, as well... a chuckle and an eyebrow raise...nice side by side.

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  8. Francis ScudellariNovember 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM

    I love the idea of a "crocodile dictionary"... great turns of phrase as always.

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  9. WalkerNovember 11, 2009 at 8:13 AM

    I guess that's why the have 100 names for the same thing so everyone can get a piece of the action.
    That's my rock.
    This can't be your rock because it's my boulder.
    I beg to differ, that's a rock, my rock not a boulder.
    No, your rock was more like a stone, just a little bigger than a pebble......

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  10. gerry boydNovember 11, 2009 at 2:21 PM

    good one Walker. one comic turn deserves another.

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  11. gerry boydNovember 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    Ande: how did you know that software is my dayjob?

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  12. gerry boydNovember 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    Jenny: me, enigma?

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  13. gerry boydNovember 11, 2009 at 2:22 PM

    thanks Francis for appreciating my absurdity

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  14. gerry boydNovember 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM

    Harlequin: chuckles are always good, except fot the licorice

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