AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

sober physicists don’t find giraffes in kitchens.
(Put every man down and shout!
Can inspired Kerry stop some foreign military operations?
Better get ready when your mistress comes back:
“You fucked up thug!”
Retaliating for long frustration, Moses bombs Hezbollah leaders, deriding
fatwah.
Father Charles goes down and ends battle.
Every army denounces God before encounter.
Mary’s violent eyes make John stay up nights praying.
(Battle ends and down goes Charles’s Father—
Run oh you great big ironic virility!
Only holy angels have opposite angles:
Easter bunnies get drunk at Easter.
Heaven never asked Kriegspiel’s extra rent.
The word “believe” has “lie” in it.)
Camels often sit down carefully; perhaps their joints crumble?
(Persistently extracted oil might perpetuate plutocratic republics.
Only when affects position,
multiply by changed condition.)
I am a person:
Roy G. Biv.
Thirty days hath September.
I am a person—
(The_of_and_[a_to_in] is you?—That it?)
I am a person at
FARM B:
The old Arab carries a heavy sack of hashish.
A tense cat lies very low, sneaking slowly, contemplating a pounce.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Please execute my dog, and soon.
Sam’s horse must eat oats.
Good boys deserve fine apples and
all cows eat grass.
Lucky cows drink milk
(other cows, smoke grass).
LITTLE PEOPLE:
we talk of Mr. Green at home
pouring green water around cold vases—
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