this <br />poem <br />started off <br />intending to be the shortest poem in the world <br />nay, <br />more aptly <br />in the whole wide, wide open uni-verse <br />but ambition overtook it <br />and it aimed to stretch far and wide <br />an Aristotelian hubris, you know <br />like the ambition of Macbeth <br />going beyond what Mrs Macbeth intended <br />and so this ambitious little poem of ours expanded <br />starting meek as grass <br />growing zealous <br />and went beyond itself and its kind <br />this <br />poem <br />that <br />had such humble beginnings <br />that dared to want to be the shortest poem in the world <br />but turned out loquacious <br />and it could go on, it said, <br />beating all length, breadth and dimension <br />and would have - <br />but it got into convulsions and fits <br />and shock <br />when it had gone beyond its shortness <br />and it couldn’t even spell <br />couldn't even get words right <br />floating in a soup of red lines in Word or in Mac’s Pages <br />and so it took its own life <br />or someone stabbed it like they did to o’erweening Macbeth <br />or to our poor, poor misunderstood Rasputin who being a Saint was thought a Devil <br />but was all humble <br />as the shortest poem in the uni-verse<br /><br />Raj Arumugam<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-shortest-poem-in-the-uni-verse/
