[New-Poetry] "Sonnet: Clouds of Knowing and Unknowing"

[Halvard Johnson]

Without the "not."
"Not" = emergency.

Hal

"One would have to have a heart of stone not
  to laugh at the death of Little Nell."
                           --Oscar Wilde

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On Nov 3, 2006, at 6:41 AM, James Cervantes wrote:

> Sent me to Babelfish:  "Not macht erfinderisch."  And I think it got
> butchered.  Are we to take it as being more or less "emergency not the
> mother of invention"?
>
> - Jim
>
> On 11/2/06, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sonnet:  Clouds of Knowing and Unknowing
>>
>> Expecting fathers and their favorers--long used to knowing
>> what to do, what not to do--consider medical evacuation
>> to be among their least attractive options. Familiarizing
>> ourselves with alternative travel plans might be wise to do.
>>
>> Local laws and customs are no longer beneath contempt,
>> proper subjects only for writers and for travel agents
>> swimming against the tide of online reservation booking.
>>
>> Handbooks of popular proverbs and sayings yield only
>> revisionist maxims such as "Don't swap wooden nickels
>> in midstream" and "Necessity's mother knows no laws."
>>
>> In the meanwhile, we were fiddling when we should have
>> been faddling. Promising stock options were allowed to drop.
>> Another of Peggy Lee's sad songs. Her death was natural,
>> much to everyone's relief. Not macht erfinderisch.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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