John Enright

[John Enright @johnjenright]

Some ingredient from Gila Monster venom,
Lets people squeeze into tighter denim.

[John Enright @johnjenright]

First humans on the moon they said.
And I replied, that place is dead,
And so they were, as it turns out
The first chance for the moon to know what life is all about.

[John Enright @johnjenright]

I liked the modernized odyssey.
I liked the old poem too.
They’re similar enough, you see,
Even if not quite true.
Whoever he was, he sailed the seas,
And had a hard time getting back,
Faced monstrous difficulties…
Even at home, more attack!

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I’m giving this Odyssey movie a look,
Hoping it’s more true to life than the book.
Homer went wild with special effects,
Threw Circe in for gratuitous sex.
I’m hoping Nolan’s more matter of fact
About the brutal journey home after Troy was sacked.

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If you use the post modern method,
You can turn each statement around
Until it means something different,
Until it’s upside down.
You know that American Bison
Who tossed that old guy in the air?
When the devil’s eyes are glinting,
Best get out of there!

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Had a Tarot Card reading,
This is on the level,
I picked three cards without looking,
And one of them was the devil.
She told me that wasn’t all bad,
But to be alert for lies.
They do seem omnipresent -
Could they be the truth in disguise?

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The rhymes will come fast and loose, like a parody of Seuss.

[John Enright @johnjenright]

Have you ever played bridge on a bridge?
Have you ever played chess on a chest?
I don’t think I’ve done either one.
Perhaps that’s for the best!

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I think she’s pretty in pink.

[John Enright @johnjenright]

And then move on to try out something else.
And that alone, that willingness to shrug,
And just move on, has served the country well,
This quarter of a thousand years, this stretch
Of time since first we struggled to be free.

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Two hundred and fifty years since they declared!
I've been alive for more than a quarter of that,
Observing closely who my people are.
I have to say: don’t sell my people short.
We are not always right, for awful things
Have been done in our name, beneath our flag,

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But more than most we learn by our mistakes,
Experimentalists, empiricists,
We get it in our mind to just try something,
And sometimes it’s a masterful success,
But other times a grim catastrophe,
At which point you will see us shrug our shoulders

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Marsha with a car that caught my eye,
But that I probably won’t buy.

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A massive civilizational clash,
Leaving behind this cultural mash.
Everywhere there is evidence
Of this collision of continents.

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In Spain, it’s never much of a search
To find a mosque turned into a church.
That bell tower, now so pleasantly ringing,
Was once a minaret, hauntingly singing.
The language itself is Latin at base,
But with Arabic sprinkled all over the place,

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Hundreds of heliostats make it shine like that.

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Do you think it would be expedient
To inquire about the exact ingredients?

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Attention captured, then heart enraptured, then loss of affection causing dejection.

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@cjsmall @AKDay89 I am sure I will visit, but I cannot say that I am exactly looking forward to it.

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@cjsmall Big deal In Spain, still, but obscure in English speaking world.

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Lope de Vega and Shakespeare
Both wrote plays concerning Juliet.
But did they know of each other?
Not that we’ve discovered yet!