Truncated Logic: To Render a Voice that is true...

Monday, February 16, 2009

To render

a voice true

the one

that really

speaks

of

and

for

you

- impossible?

Mayhaps -

mayhaps not?

RachelW said...: mayhaps not

I think snot

or it'snot

knot?

oh rot, what a spot

I think I've got

the trots.

(Your poem is hot); February 17, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Scott MacNeil said...: Thank Hardy for "Mayhaps"

It's an indelible term for me (just like 'commune', Pope & dope, etc.,) ever since 1978 when a certain Jesuit kept screaming at me (full of snot!): "How Master 'X' can you not KNOW the meaning of 'mayhaps' --- 'mayhaps' sir you have yet to read your Hardy???"

At which point, at 14 (testosterone driven) and ignorant - I proceeded to read every published Hardy novel & poem then available in Labrador.

In three weeks I was done. Yes, I'd had to greet each morn's sun - but I was done. Odd. 'mayhaps' sticks with me still!

How odd?; February 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM
RachelW said...: Mayhaps (or methinks) a lesson was learned that day. By a raving jesuit, or a testosterone-loaded boy?; February 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM
joaquin carvel said...: only one way to find out, yes? (and off we go....); March 2, 2009 at 11:52 PM