"Man is the alembic of art"
That's what Mr. Thoreau said.
A - L - E - M - B -I - C
Hold it right there!
Just what the hell is that?
Well, OK in a word, an alembic is a still.
So the man at the pond is telling us,
making whisky and poems is the same deal.
Take a *** of sludgy words,
boil is so it shoots out the cap
and into a tube.
With a little luck
only good stuff condenses in the beaker -
"Thoreau-ly" purified.
Hopefully it's a good year.
Still, (sic) your verbal whisky can be
no better than the sludge you start with.
Bottoms up!
© 2017 by Robert Charles Howard
Aug 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2017 at 3:21 PM UTC
"Man is the alembic of art"
That's what Mr. Thoreau said.
A - L - E - M - B -I - C
Hold it right there!
Just what the hell is that?
Well, OK in a word, an alembic is a still.
So the man at the pond is telling us,
making whisky and poems is the same deal.
Take a *** of sludgy words,
boil is so it shoots out the cap
and into a tube.
With a little luck
only good stuff condenses in the beaker -
"Thoreau-ly" purified.
Hopefully it's a good year.
Still, (sic) your verbal whisky can be
no better than the sludge you start with.
Bottoms up!
© 2017 by Robert Charles Howard
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