ambiguity Poems and Poetry

"To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won."
- Simone De Beauvoir, "The Ethics of Ambiguity"

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The Red Delicious apple of your tongue
engages words to a misperception
never pondered: a dull bite for the dutiful
drone who floats, prosaic, like a fly

in the soapbox bath of trite deflection.
(How these adjectives pile into a poignant
heap of silage!) Deaf and dumb, we feel
your timid roar, the pontificate shrill