A literati trek around Babylon
Conversing with vertiginous walls
estranges my tongue. The latex paint
is not up to my expected cultural standard.
Words peel off the wall and stretch
with a rubberized measured meaning.
Their gist acts as a technological evolution
in the laws of compliancy marrying
faulty substance with faultlessness
in the ever rising walls.
Each phrase arrives in rainbow colors
that must be separated into wave lengths.
In addition each spells something surreal
in diverse multicolored languages.
Pasted segments form a labyrinthine puzzle
where alien alphabets crisscross forming
innovative sentences I’m obligated
to babble. Suddenly the realization
of having been transported some millennia
into an antiquated past finds my self
tumbling downward a spiraling tower
but instead of falling straight my flight is
helicoidal. I pull behind me streams of
multilingual banners and feel like I’m
becoming an international paper-asshole.
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Alex Nodopaka Jul©2010
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