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Man’s Façade

– fore to hind –

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Man’s Façade

– fore to hind –

Persistent mind
On the façade,
Of fore to hind
No pasquinade,
Wouldst define
Nor satire’s aid,
Thus, so in time
Will play a game,
Not feigning blind
Ne’er ye find same, 
To suffer a like mind
Nigh as fixated to change, 
Tho be born in man’s façade!

                 Ode to they of so-called, 
                                nonconformist persuasion... 

                          © Jean-Jacques Fournier 


Image – Wikimedia Commons
Music - Almost Blue by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier



                   written in Sweetsburg
	         © Jean-Jacques Fournier
		       December 4, 2021
		edited December 13, 2022
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“ Vertical Imbroglio ” – a shadow state –

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“ Vertical Imbroglio ”                                 

– a shadow state –

I reach ahead

Haltingly so,

As I prepare

To step alas, 

Beyond length

It takes to pass,

A prior stride

Repairs behind,

In effort guide

A next in kind,

Repeats to bide,

Thus so I sense

May tend to slide,

As if said motion

Would so impair,

To suffer notions

Of a lost equilibrium… 











While tho awake,  





I envisage myself   





Inhabiting a place,                                 





Of vertical imbroglio  





As a shadow state,  





Steps be but echoes  





 In an outer mind   





Suggesting guise,  





We’re to accept  





Its bogus disguise,  





Tho manipulated   





By what’s left alive,  





 And still humanlike  





Despite emotive pries… 




















Hence be sagacious                                                                          





Attempt at realism,





Imbroglio’s shadow





State imaging façade,





Said of bemused reality,                                                                                





The while life’s demise   





Be destined irrevocably,                                                                                       





Tho holds mans laudable prize!










                © Jean-Jacques Fournier 
                         1st written in Grasse, France  2005
  
Paintings - by René Magritte ... 
 Audio’s music - exerpt of  Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla ...