New Year Bagatelle
A fine time
we are having
when a year passes away
unwaked
and a new one slips in
untoasted
My hi-tech toy
livens things up a bit:
a friend's picture SMS
sighs: Adieu
2005,
the integers flanking
a nude female torso
whose breasts double
as noughts--
and O O O
what noughts,
the infinite being
of their circularity
(if I may be permitted
a mathematico-
metaphysical shuffle)
a pert rebuff
to sartorial fascism
Or could they be
a grimly humorous warning--
stylized bombs
with detonator nipples?
Well, you can have
your semiotic pick
as irreversible days unravel
their own slippery tale
we are having
when a year passes away
unwaked
and a new one slips in
untoasted
My hi-tech toy
livens things up a bit:
a friend's picture SMS
sighs: Adieu
2005,
the integers flanking
a nude female torso
whose breasts double
as noughts--
and O O O
what noughts,
the infinite being
of their circularity
(if I may be permitted
a mathematico-
metaphysical shuffle)
a pert rebuff
to sartorial fascism
Or could they be
a grimly humorous warning--
stylized bombs
with detonator nipples?
Well, you can have
your semiotic pick
as irreversible days unravel
their own slippery tale
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