Chris

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©2009 C.G. Ward

drew circles on paper,
called it science.

how else would you define
symbols etched into wood pulp
beaten like a singapore whore?

see, in the beginning
the world was round,
the rectangle got the shaft
and the triangle's been balancing on eggshells ever since.

tip-tap
tip-tap
evolution's got a bad rap
bad rap.
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and you thought you had the simple answer...
no, i know you never agree,
never believe.
shouldn't be surprised anymore,
but can't help wishing you'd learn to dream...
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sigh, screw, or smile, it's all the same:

method acting without a blue screen
or metaphors
to flush out your scene.

it's as close to reality as you can bear
and might as well be krypton.
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kilgore trout said he never asked to be born,
said none of us do.
his explanation for the initiation of that event
is enough to make you skip lunch,
so i won't explain,
though it is of note that a circle was involved.

trout, however, never skipped lunch.
couldn't,
see, he wasn't real.

of course,
the irony is -

he still didn't care.
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if a tangent were pulled taut,
would it still be a tangent?

i'd say yes,
but straight lines never interested me much -
i always prefer the curves.