Monday, February 2, 2009

The Geek Poet's Tale [the tenth fragment]


[continued from the ninth fragment]

   Vying for spot on the bus near the syntax-breaking bard

   The Geek poet crossed the aisle — but then, he was put off-guard ...


I was about to claim seat when that spot was fast taken

By a dandy fey. He cradled, if I'm not mistaken,

A book with childish dust. I seated instead second-best

In the aisle-facing row in front of two, now to my left.

The programmer-poet recognized the puzzle-ing dude,

And they began to converse. I didn't want to be rude,

So I eavesdropped, pretending attention to my iPhone

Instead. Their dialog revealed their particular tone ...




[this ends the tenth fragment*]

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* More to be published, as they are recovered from Blogosphere's backed-up blogs. -pt

( fragments collected to date — newest fragments first )


Note
"prompted" by Totally Optional Prompts Repetition (rfp), or — more accurately — by the prompt's reference to The Hunting of the Snark (Lewis Caroll)


5 comments:

  1. These fragments are so cool. Are you gonna cover the whole of literary history eventually?

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  2. Thanks!

    I'm not sure myself where this is headed, and how many more fragments will be "discovered". Maybe like the old movie serials. (Or NBC's HEROES.)

    But one thing I guarantee: In "The End", The Geek Poet lives.

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  3. Hi Phil, and I wonder who the geek poet is? I'll have to check back after work and read up on the previous posts...

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  4. I'm loving the fragments - unusually real.

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  5. This sounds so true to life. I'm sure I've been on this bus many times.

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