You Cannot Arrest an Idea

You cannot be neutral on a moving train -- Howard Zinn. (distortion...)

Batwings

Look like things

Like scrotal skins

Fleshy umbrellas

Mammalian canopies 

Flight without feathers

　

Those are some thoughts put in a sort of way.

　

Mind strings

Contemplating things

Unfettered me thinks

Without tether I search

Sober under ether

Overpowering a void through sheer freedom of

Thought

　

Free among men and of bats

And any other mammals

Taking flight without feathers

　

Chained or unchained

I will always be free

Disolved into aether

I am irrelevant

My freedom is everything but a stain

"You cannot arrest an idea"

"You cannot be nuetral on a moving train"(howard zinn)

Author's Note

Reviews

[TL Boehm]

Sober under ether
Overpowering a void through sheer freedom of
Thought

Yup. Thing about a poem is - at least here in the informal social conveyance known as the cafe - I am more response than critique. So you get a response to those lines. If more of us who call ourselves writers would simply let go of the controls, because we aren't really in control anyway perhaps the real "writer" would emerge. Maybe they should call "reviews" "responses" because so few of us are editors anyway. I like a poem that makes me think - and those lines sent me off down a wonderful little mental jaunt. Thank you

[Davidgeo]

You're delicious my dear.

[barrywatkins]

I was wondering whether or not you worked? You seem to spend a fair bit of time at the cafe.

Oh, by the way, ether, aether, you didn't answer the question. I was just wondering.

[Davidgeo]

I live in a dumpster behind a Wada Burger... for monkey I fornicate business men in the local parking garages during their lunch break.... I'm glad you monitor my time spent here, that's not bizarre at all... What' an "ether"? Is that some kind of soft shell sea turtle? Also, I think you made a typo cause I don't think "aether" is any kind of turtle or wash cloth. Now, I have to get back to my dumpster. It's all a mess and Barack Obama is coming over soon to discuss foreign policy. Thank you for playing. Goodbye.

[barrywatkins]

ether, aether, decent word choices, you may just have some talent after all. Unless of course 'aether' was just a silly typo.

[Davidgeo]

Are you done? Can you be done? I don't want to be your friend, I have zero respect for you, I think you're a compulsive liar, I think you are more than two faced, and I think your reasons for being here are insidious. Does that help you understand my disposition toward you? (rhetorical questions don't require answers... feel free to stop talking to me at any time)