An Epic on Childhood - 12 - Rimbaud's Boat
w t f
e o o
u w r
s a t
e i h
d t e
heavy rains to fall
then make them
frail voyagers
origami creatures
come to sail and sink
drinking brown tea, their death, on the choppy oceans of their brief
lives
our puddles
over which i squatted, watched them soggify
tried to dry
but they would still tear
and die,
the ink from the notebook page
run like
blue snot or tears
down their bodies
well, i and my sister
never, did, cry
at their demise -
only an end -
but look up at the sky as
w t f
e o o
u w r
s a t
e i h
d t e
ftw
next heavy...
What the fuck? – an expression of disbelief – Are we talking here about the language code for the Trans–New Guinean Watiwa language; “Work Time Fun,” a video game for the PlayStation Portable; the album “W.T.F. (Wisdom, Tenacity and Focus)” by Vanilla Ice or “WTF?!” by the industrial band KMFDM; one of these songs: "WTF?" by OK GO, "WTF" by Heart, "WTF" by Wiz Khalifa, or "WTF (Where They From)" by Missy Elliott and Pharrell; “The Daily WTF” blog about information technology "perversions;" the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron;” "W.T.F." (South Park), (Wrestling Takedown Federation), an episode of South Park; "WTF," a segment on sexual fetishes on G4TV's “Attack of the Show;” the “Weird, True & Freaky” documentary series on Animal Planet; WTF, the former name of the British music television channel Planet Pop; an Internet top-level domain; KIC 8462852, an unusual "WTF star" ("Where's The Flux" star); a nickname for WT1190F, a large piece of space debris that fell on Earth in 2015; ATP WTF (World Tour Finals); Western Task Force, part of Operation Torch, the British-American invasion of French North Africa in 1942; Wikileaks Task Force inside the Central Intelligence Agency to study Wikileaks; the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts; the World Taekwondo Federation???????
ReplyDeleteIs “eoo” EOO-4, the fallacy of exclusive premises that is invalid because both of its premises are negative; one of these the ecological terms” “occupancy–abundance” (O–A) relationship (between the abundance of a species and the size of its range within a region) or species’ extent of occurrence; the end of object entry in BSON. a computer data interchange format used mainly as a data storage and network transfer format in the MongoDB database; a reference to the song “This Is the Time (Eoo Eoo)" by Smile.dk; the Brazilian word “eóo” for aeon, one of the few words that have no consonants; an Exchange of Options for Options, which allows the two
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UWR? Underwater rugby, a German sport invented in the 1960s? United Western Recorders, a recording studio complex in Hollywood, California”? University of Wrocław (also UWr)?
SAT -- the standardized Scholastic Aptitude Test later called the Scholastic Assessment Test widely used for college admissions in the US? Or simply Saturday?
EIH could be East India Hotels (now EIH Limited). Or it could be eiH, an expression of the unitary complex square matrix U if its conjugate transpose U∗ is also its inverse; e indicates a matrix exponential, i is the imaginary unit, and H is a Hermitian matrix;.unitary matrices are important in quantum mechanics because they preserve norms (and thus, probability amplitudes).
DTE: data terminal equipment used in telecommunication and data transmission; distance to empty, a feature in an automobile electronic instrument cluster; Dithioerythritol, a chemical; DTE (direct to edit), a digital video recording method’ DTE80, the Microsoft Development Environment 8.0 Extensibility namespace; DTE Energy, a Detroit, Michigan-based utility; Desktop Engineering Ltd, involved in engineering software; “Dora the Explorer,” a children's animated television show; Dual-Tile encoding (byte pair encoding); or “Down to Earth”?
And finally, FTW, the Fort Worth Intermodal Transportation Center (Amtrak code) or Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (IATA code) for transportation facilities in Fort Worth, Texas; though it could also be a reference to Fort Wayne, Indiana; the Big Bang album, “For the World;” the Vines song "F.T.W." on “Winning Days;” Turbonegro’s “"Fuck the World (F.T.W.); songs by MC Chris, Sword, Tiger Army, Xiu Xiu, Deez Nuts, Insane Clown Posse, Dope, Tupac Shakur (2Pac), The Queers, Lil Wayne, or Hollywood Undead; the 1994 film about an ex-convict who is a rodeo rider; the ECW FTW Heavyweight Championship; ftw, the application extension used by Family Tree Maker data files; the Furious Truckstop Waitresses, Tucson Roller Derby’s first team; Cory Doctorow’s novel, “For the Win; or the internet slang meaning “Hell yeah!”
We used to wait for the heavy rains.. the letters too fall like rain, to be soaked up drop by drop or letter by letter in this amazing poem. Rimbaud's drunken boat has an even more beautifully described end here "frail voyagers
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come to sail and sink
drinking brown tea, their death,"
Loved the poem, so many childhood memories rocking in a paper boat.
Yes references galore in pitter patter of early morning drenching of the Mother Earth after a drought
ReplyDeleteYes references galore in pitter patter of early morning drenching of the Mother Earth after a drought
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