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The Measuring Cup (The reality of a metaphor)

The living reality of a metaphor, almost every ounce in-taken,

Every nuance, every pronounce, measured, weighted and weighty,

Fluid or firmament, each encapsulated, prior to release, scaled,

Tabulated, ordered, noted, recorded, and ultimately judg-ed.

Totality of it all, the varied quantities of the ingested nutrients,

even the forecast of the future, if every day was a metaphor for

like today…

 

DO

 

I speak of the day's headlines?

Of the quantity and nutrition that passes through my lips?

Or

The surround sound of the surrounding sounds of this day,

the flocks of bandito geese who exist only to torment,

the landscape working crews, with their tools, like a 7::00an wake up buzzing about, for the entire street, going house to house, looking for itinerant grassy knolls of patches of bright green,

overnight sprung up and needy to be

guillotined,

laundry to do, rugs needy for clothesline screaming/beating or merely super fast vacuuming;

they, hawking their skills available for the old and infirm,

or the fatty catty cattle lazy, (somewhere in there is moi);

and the decibels of their machines, the rat-a-tat of their rapido, voluble speech that feeds me poetry by the ounce of their laughter, but more exactly of,

 

What do I speak, to what do I allude?

 

Why all and none, everything and specifically nothing,

 

for the metaphor is meta! (1)

It is life itself, from the quarter teaspoon

to the overflowing bath, it is life at its most incremental,

the moment

of flushing face,

the second

of ah ha! recollection, the,

long term trends

trending,

the flatline of my EKG,

the weighty pronouncement of my talking scale (you've been bad),

 

IT IS THE EVERYTHING

that is measurable, weighable, isolatable, defined; 

it is our existence of our each & every of action and inaction strung together like a necklace and a chain

 

We are metaphor, reality, is, the script,

which is the product of you.

scriptwriter…/

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Written by
nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Published
Aug 8, 2025
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Notes

(1) Meta …refers to the prefix "meta-", meaning "about," "change," or "beyond". In a more specific context, "meta" can describe something that is self-referential or reflective, like a joke about jokes

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