I’m petrified behind my flaccid carapace
and billow nauseously in patchouli air
while swine-snouted suffragettes enact
to purify my everlasting valediction
with bombastic threnodies that fill my veins
I’m lost in moribund and fluid turbulence
in pneumatic aggregation, I search in vain
for devastating loneliness of carrion birds
sleeping needle-pricked in sepulcher bracken
Just a little piece I wrote on my long flight yesterday. I link it to Toads
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June 2, 2014
Björn Rudbergs writings 
“just a little piece I wrote…”
WHAT a vocabulary you have, and what delightful imagery you are able to convey with it!
I marked off good world while reading Brave New world… 🙂 Now in California..
Bjorn, Sounds like you had a rough flight with lots of air turbulence. 🙂 —Susan
Ha.. yes or good reading…:-)
Great reading does inspire the noblest thoughts in all of us. :*
🙂
And you sau this is little? 🙂
Smaller than a full sonnet at least. 🙂
You wrote some real gems here: “everlasting valediction”, “bombastic threnodies”, “neumatic aggregation”, … The title also fits very well the writing style.
Hmm. I can see funereal fantasy occurring in the metal enclosure of modern flight, and Brave New World might just hasten that along. But what a vision! To escape everlasting words of bombast, wouldst thou willingly be carrion or the carrion bird?
“Swine-snouted suffragettes” made me laugh…sounds like a long, turbulent flight but at least you had a good read 🙂
just hope that the s-s-ses are not the stewardesses 🙂
Indeed they might have been
This is a piece of high contrast the patchouli scent vying with the swine snouts, the moribund against the everlasting valediction. I especially liked the way you wound it up in the last two lines.
WOW! Love the “swine-snouted suffragettes” – your verbiage outdoes itself splendidly in this “little poem” Hee hee. Impressive!
swine-snouted suffragettes? guffaw!
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so many new words I learnt!
This ought to be Death Metal lyrics, Bjorn–I love the ringing and dancing of the vocabulary–every word used both appropriately, and with great effect–also just fun to read out loud.
Dang, what an assortment of words. They “feel” good on the tongue.
ha. your use of vocabulary in this is outstanding and there is a nice dance to your words….there is def a shadow within the piece…i like joys thought of it being a death metal piece…ha…
your choice of words are just fantastic in this piece.
PS I haven’t heard bombastic in such a long time and it wasn’t no where near as cool.
Very, very ambrosial! 😀
Wow Bjorn you are journey to the dark side and you do it so well..
sorry should be journeying ..
Wonderful, wonderful use of vocabulary! “[S]wine-snouted suffragettes” is absolutely delightful. Well, the ‘connective tissue’ of that entire line is inspired. I heartily bow to this one,
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AB