Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:20:24 EDT
Subject: Re: No subject was specified.


In a message dated 00-05-25 10:58:27 EDT, you write:

<< Postcolonial ventriloquism >>

Ah, the marblemushed mouth
that sucks the life outta
me, myself, and I
Came, saw, conquered
the past to discover my own
eternal colonization.

At the dawn
of the new (whose?) millennium
of greedneed I find myself
staring at Plato's shadow-filled
Cave box desktopped for my convenience
RAMmed full of inconsequentia
Absorbed like Narcissus
Playing at the edge
of the world's lake.

[c 2000 thomas fortenberry]