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Poems

Chapter 25: IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?
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A collection of concise lyric pieces that employ precise diction, striking imagery, and ironic observation to examine perception, art, and everyday life. Poems shift between playful personifications of machines and animals and sober meditations on aesthetic judgment, moral intention, and human foibles, often using concrete objects as metaphors. The speaker alternates between wit and seriousness, favoring compressed forms, unexpected juxtapositions, and careful detail to probe how language, experience, and power shape understanding.

IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH?

Why so desolate? And why multiply in phantasmagoria about fishes, what disgusts you? Could not all personal upheaval in the name of freedom, be tabood?
Is it Nineveh and are you Jonah in the sweltering east wind of your wishes? I, myself have stood there by the aquarium, looking at the Statue of Liberty.

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Transcriber’s Notes:


Typographical errors have been silently corrected.