Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge
Wikipedia.org, 18 January 2012
The keeper of the quiet books
has risen, thrown the lock across
her darkened door, and rallied
to the polar cause.
Yes, they've closed the library.
Between those charging bulls, eternal
life and waning hope,
the matador of learning
stands, naked, tilting for
a larger slice of some day's pie
from unborn mouths. I watch
through one unclouded eye
the trembling sand darken then still
before a dusty shroud descends
to bury the scuff marks left
of the matador's remains.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
Note: The key word here is 'polar,' which refers to being of an extreme, as in a polarized argument.
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ReplyDeleteSo true and so vividly put! I love the melancholy and viscerality of feeling expressed.
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ReplyDeleteSome comments removed because they refer to an earlier version. I am grateful for all comments and suggestions.
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