Even Paper Planes Can Fly High
Poems With Shapes #3
Experiments With Poems And Shapes
(I’ve attached the image of the poem since I didn’t want the configuration of the screen to change the diagrammatic representation.
Here’s the text version of the same poem for highlighting, etc.)
even paper planes can fly high
yes, you can do that thing -
you know, the one which you put
aside so reluctantly, as being a damn
stupid idea that is of no good and that is
of no significance whatsoever. yes, the one
that’s safely tucked away in a deep freezer of
hibernation, bound for extinction. yes, that idea!
you know, they say that rome was not built in a day.
i think that the same is true about a plane. what else is
true i think is that it had to have started on a day. may not
be on a particularly significant day at all. it probably started
out as an idea in somebody’s mind.and then that person thought,
oh! that’s a fantastic idea. hell no! i don’t think he thought that. but
he must’ve thought — what a piece of shit idea worth throwing in the bin.
yeah! i’m telling you, i think he must’ve thought himself to be a fool to have
imagined such grandiosity. much like you and i think of the ideas that happen to
cross our hearts and minds. but true grandiose is when you decide to stick…
