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Don’t forget there are two ways of being yourself…you can either show the straightforward picture, or else what is called the negative.

In the latter, light and shade are reversed; To the unaccustomed eye it seems ugly; But the likeness is in that, too, all the same.

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Shoelaces



i peer
at the crooked little teeth
behind the big ones
between wrinkles and weird maps
On your dark fair blue red skin
and i sleep so well.

I who have no god
am warmed
by the soft glow of your faith.

my father brother lover tormentor
my sin my fever my death my delight.
my shoelaces.

But
for you, a show
a hymn, a dress
cleansed of my blood.
for them, my bloodless virtue.

I shall dance to their song
I shall play the part.
I shall dance till my laces break.
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17 comments

  1. Mos-a on November 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM

    i actually understood this one. heehaw.

    PS: lose the @#!@*& word verfication

     
  2. Peer Gynt on November 7, 2009 at 7:33 PM

    heehaw. that's a good sign (for me) :)

    what word verification?

     
  3. feddabonn on November 8, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    that's beautiful. shall now think of dancing every time i do up my shoelaces. not that often, but hey.

     
  4. Peer Gynt on November 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    thanks bonny! yeh, ye could say my name is Fred...and start tappin awey :D

     
  5. Vagabond on November 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM

    :) Nice Mimi

     
  6. Peer Gynt on November 10, 2009 at 2:21 AM

    thanks dear bond, vagabond. and do update your blog...'least as often as i do! *heeheekoff* cant vait to read stuff from that hidden notepad oyers :P

     
  7. Mizohican on November 14, 2009 at 4:18 PM

    Niceeeee. And you know what? You missed out a few kinky stuff that you can do with shoelaces ;)

     
  8. Mizohican on November 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    And dont mind Mossy. People do weird things when they're drunk. While some people call up their ex or sing whenever they're drunk, intoxicated Mossy goes around telling every blogger to remove their word verification, regardless of whether they have it or not.

     
  9. Peer Gynt on November 14, 2009 at 4:36 PM

    aah praps ye oughta give it another go..ye just might find it tween sin and death :D

    i suggest ye go tie up mossy wif yo shoelaces. that'll keepim from ranting. bwaahaaah.

     
  10. feddabonn on November 16, 2009 at 12:28 AM

    @kima: NOW i understand. musta been been *rather hard to type out the weird letter combinations, lmao.

     
  11. feddabonn on January 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    i find myself coming back to this again and again.

    "I who have no god
    am warmed
    by the soft glow of your faith."

    "...for you...a dress
    cleansed of my blood.
    for them, my bloodless virtue."

    "I shall dance till my laces break."

    anii mong. like reader diges quotable quotes, mo?

     
  12. Peer Gynt on January 7, 2010 at 5:17 PM

    khublei shibun mo bah! ka lawm lutuk!

     
  13. happyredrooster on July 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM

    This is brilliant. And you never shared this with me. ("My writings silly". Hah.)

    The last two verses in particular. An mawi bawn bingbilet tawp tawp.

     
  14. Peer Gynt on September 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM

    ka lawm e a u...bawn bingbilet tawp tawp! :)

     
  15. Unknown on October 19, 2012 at 5:38 PM

    So happy i got to read this one again. had been in my head since i first read it. i had always just remembered it as the shoelace poem. glad to know it's actually titled shoelaces.:)

     
  16. DayDreamBeliever on October 20, 2012 at 7:37 PM

    Ka lo hual hmak hmak e, for publication :)

     
  17. Peer Gynt on October 29, 2012 at 12:32 PM

    @bah sanga ~ yayy you remember!! tenkiu :)
    @ddb ~ thank you!! this is great honour even to be in consideration of publication by one such as yourself. myself feeling v puffy chested and thumping fist on chest! :)

     


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