The Daily Poem

THE NIGHT

The night, the night, the night, the night

The Chinese railway night.

What can be said cannot be done,

Except by smashing every one.

What can be done cannot be said,

Except by thrashing every head.

The night, the night, the night, the night,

The Chinese railway night.

D. Edgar Lamp

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Octave

Guangzhou, China

JOURNAL: Overnight Train from Guangzhou to Nanning

~ The Daily Poet

EXIT STRATEGY

I watch the street from a railing vantage point,

And lean with curious gaze at what I see,

Where eye for eye and tooth for tooth, where joint

For joint and noose for noose mortality

Is deeply set like metal pinning bone,

A wireless connection clone to clone

Of braided strands deceptively alone,

Where every ear anticipates its phone.

There's talk of something happening down the street,

A rippling field of faces turn as one.

Their eyes on this anomaly will meet

In momentary glints of noonday sun,

And just as quickly settle back to norms

Of knowns, in chains of gloveless forms,

Each keyboard pressed by fingertips performs

Its necessary soft cuneiforms.

I'm here where no one sees the way I watch.

They're all there in their natural habitat,

Enclosed and safe along this urban patch

Of motherboarded crossing square and flat.

I want to slice them name by name, and sauce

Them some permission slipped away by loss

Once sold as gain through a clever double cross:

Look up, look up, and catch the hope I toss.

D. Edgar Lamp

The Daily Poem - 482

Novel Verse Form

Kampala, Uganda

Lat: 0.31, Long: 32.58

HYDROPHILICITY QUOTIENTS

What hydrophilicity quotient is used

When judging the Maritime Porpoise Array,

And how is the echo returning diffused

When hypersalinity shifts the display?

The choir of orcas who sing in the bay

Without their devices will wander confused,

And trigger the netting of Iron & Clay,

In silence to circle perplexed and bemused.

Rancho Mirage, California

D. Edgar Lamp

Octave