May we aspire to a more contemplative state<\/p>\n
Not Florida or Nevada, for example<\/p>\n
But there we go again,<\/p>\n
with the bank-shot gag,<\/p>\n
and the scattershot whimsy;<\/p>\n
while deeper discernment slips off<\/p>\n
to kill time alone in a deeper, dryer well<\/p>\n
Who will instead let down<\/p>\n
wisdom\u2019s ladder-rope into that waiting well<\/p>\n
and let the frivolous and flippant fireworks fall faint?<\/p>\n
Pray perhaps for a prank-less interlude,<\/p>\n
a complete eclipse of the synapse-ellipses<\/p>\n
May we at least filter out the oft-offered filters<\/p>\n
and slip off into a more unfathomable source?<\/p>\n
May we aspire to a more contemplative state<\/p>\n
Not Florida or Nevada, for example<\/p>\n
But there we go again,<\/p>\n
with the bank-shot gag,<\/p>\n
and the scattershot whimsy;<\/p>\n
while deeper discernment slips off<\/p>\n
to kill time alone in a deeper, dryer well<\/p>\n
Who will instead let down<\/p>\n
wisdom\u2019s ladder-rope into that waiting well<\/p>\n
and let the frivolous and flippant fireworks fall faint?<\/p>\n
Pray perhaps (!) for a prank-less interlude,<\/p>\n
a complete eclipse of the synapse-ellipses<\/p>\n
May we at least filter out the oft-offered filters<\/p>\n
and slip off into a more unfathomable source?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, Well, Well (after Murakami) May we aspire to a more contemplative state Not Florida or Nevada, for example But there we go again, with the bank-shot gag, and the scattershot whimsy; while deeper discernment slips off to kill time alone in a deeper, dryer well Who will instead let down wisdom\u2019s ladder-rope into that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}