Random Act of Madness: Logophobia

Jan 21, 2009

Logophobia

Will he ask me to elope,
Will he ask me to buy some dope,
Will the dame say nope,
I'm afraid to open the envelope ..

Have the enemies moved closer,
Does he really have cancer,
Did I lose another acre,
I'm afraid to read the letter ..

Did they reject my vote,
Didn't all fit on the boat,
Did he make me a scapegoat,
I'm afraid to read the footnote ..

Do I say goodbye,
Do I say lets meet in July,
Will they raise an outcry,
I'm afraid to reply ..

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Arun Kaushal said...: Hey thnx ..; March 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. - Charles Simic

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Jean Paul Richter

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Most people ignore most poetry / because / most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell

Why am i me......why not a tree.......why not be free....why am i me....i just dont see

Give me grief so grave, that it'll make me brave.....Random line of Sadness :(

Only sorrow ...with the thought of tomorrow.....do i beg or borrow....the option gets narrow....

tick tock tick tock...move a little faster mr clock...need to get out of this block !

the end is yet far, nowhere near..... all is foggy, nothing clear

the old bucket thrown away.....does the new one hold water?

The Devil's Dictionary

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at least not on the outside.

CONTROVERSY, n. A battle in which spittle or ink replaces the injurious cannon-ball and the inconsiderate bayonet.

FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

DANCE, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

BEAUTY, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

CIRCUS, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

LOVE, n - A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

ALONE, adj. In bad company.

POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens.

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed. The question, "Is life worth living?" has been much discussed; particularly by those who think it is not, many of whom have written at great length in support of their view and by careful observance of the laws of health enjoyed for long terms of years the honors of successful controversy.

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

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