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