Oct 2020
I don't think, as I reach up,
As I reach up, the stars shrink,
The stars shrink, and like glass cuts,
And like glass cuts, I don't think,
The stars fall, and like glass cuts,
And like glass cuts, the clouds stall,
The clouds stall, it won't end, but-
It wont end, but the stars fall,
We can't die, it won't end, but-
It won't end, but I can't cry,
I can't cry, 'cause in my gut,
'Cause in my gut, we can't die.
I don't think, 'cause in my gut,
'Cause in my gut, it's all drink,
It's all drink, I don't know what,
I don't know what, I don't think.
As I reach up, the stars shrink,
The stars shrink, and like glass cuts,
And like glass cuts, I don't think,
The stars fall, and like glass cuts,
And like glass cuts, the clouds stall,
The clouds stall, it won't end, but-
It wont end, but the stars fall,
We can't die, it won't end, but-
It won't end, but I can't cry,
I can't cry, 'cause in my gut,
'Cause in my gut, we can't die.
I don't think, 'cause in my gut,
'Cause in my gut, it's all drink,
It's all drink, I don't know what,
I don't know what, I don't think.
This is a new form I made, which uses an ABAB rhyme scheme for each stanza, with each line being an odd number of words long, made of two phrases where one phrase is one word shorter than the other. A lines are odd/even, while B lines are even/odd. The second phrase of the first line is the first phrase of the second line, and so on, but the 4th line of the stanza ends with the first phrase of the first line.
The second stanza's second phrase on the first line uses the first phrase from the last stanza's last line.
And the last stanza's first line should begin with the same phrase the poem began with, to end how it began.
There are no syllabic rules, this is all about recursion.
Mmm recursion.
The second stanza's second phrase on the first line uses the first phrase from the last stanza's last line.
And the last stanza's first line should begin with the same phrase the poem began with, to end how it began.
There are no syllabic rules, this is all about recursion.
Mmm recursion.
