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Gibson's Succinct: "The Lovely Intimacy"

a product of his instinct,

why use

ten when

two will do,

and the ratio is increasingly

progressive!

 

**"lovely intimacy between poet and muse here,

like an old friendship-made of fatigue and faith"^**

 

the only reason why my hair,

yet intact,

despite old age's creep

in every other elsewhere,

 

although

Gibson's, his sixteen,

a superior concision

of my endless, repetitive iterations,

 

his literatation

nonetheless

is an insufficient

to cures what ills me…

 

to calm my heart, soothe my dreams ,

would render 99 of  mine 100 muses,

and all your voices

ungainly unemployable

 

worsen yet,

the disheartening palpitations

that shake n' bake my very core,

 

them those demons too,

the contrapuntal hidden forces

that rue my brain,

 

well hell!

poet complains!exclaims!

 

for when the muses sleep,

these devils roam, they creep,

never permitting an easy sleep,

and instead of poems,

they give me forth in

groans and moans,

the unintelligible reverse of

my ever~faithful muses's intimacy,

the un~cooing of our pleasure,

 

for

when rhymes dewdrop^^

from the insertions from heaven's eyes,

and then when,

you and I

together embrace,

the harmony of spirit

that a poem

makes writer and reader

sharers,

 

the calm shaking

of hearts well tickled,

laughingly ratified,

and even momentarily

satiated and satisfied

is our

now combinatorial

esprit de corps^^^

 

 

~'~'''~~

just a wee ditzy ditty that

fell onto a screen

when reviewing

my silly but

true and utter faithful muses's^^^^

utterances,

in being be tweening

the quickest ten minutes

of my ridiculous life

 

 

<nml>

10/6 no tricks 2025

3:10am ~3:20am

~~~

and

now let the real,

hard-work of handiwork ahead,

of writing

something akin

to a psalm, a prayer,

a train of quatrains,

a hiya to haikus,

a ballad to bellow,

you know,

that serious stuffing

that leaves us both

😢aweeping😪

with the unadulterated

purest of joy

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Written by
nat-lipstadt
99 / M / NYC/Lippstadt/Kraków
Published
Oct 6, 2025
Lines·Words
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Notes

^

William A Gibson

Re "FPOTD✅: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined'

"

There’s a lovely intimacy between poet and muse here, like an old friendship made of fatigue and faith"

^^

for Marshall G.

an admission

of guilty feelings

^^^

esprit de corps:

"the shared sense of camaraderie, unity, enthusiasm, and loyalty that develops among the members of a group, such as a bunch of poets

^^^^

muses's

insist this 'bespoke' out loud

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