Thursday, September 17, 2015

Posturing - Three Word Wednesday


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A late entry into Three Word Wednesday. The three words are: Haphazard; Labored; Noxious.

Posturing

Noxious fumaroles
are burping out smokey rings
and smell of bad eggs
in back of my eyes.

You claim me a labored bard
but what shall I do
with this graying cess*
and its curly enforcement?
Those curs should depart
for sharper corners
and let haphazard songsters
hoist their own petard.

I am sure of it.

I do, I do make some kind
of sense but maybe
not right now, brother.
I confess to posturing
at this damn juncture.

‎September ‎16, ‎2015 8:57 PM

*The dictionary defines cess like this: (in Scotland, Ireland, and India) a tax or levy. I like the connotation of (bad) cess implied by "graying cess" as it goes to black. One might think at this juncture (sic) of the word assess.

When I checked bad cess then cess came up like this: chiefly Irish: cess means luck — usually used in the phrase bad cess to you, or another like it.

I suppose the link is that taxes are particularly bad luck when they land on your back.

7 comments:

  1. And you do make sense - to those in the same (kind of) circles perhaps - cess....yes like all pits maybe relative to where you are standing!

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    1. There is an American use of this that you saying pit got me to recall...

      Cesspool. an underground container for the temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage.
      - a disgusting or corrupt place.

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    1. If you have one. A petard was a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. It is of French origin and dates back to the sixteenth century. A typical petard was a conical or rectangular metal object containing 2–3 kg (5 or 6 pounds) of gunpowder, with a slow match for a fuse.

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    2. So extending metaphorically, you hoist the petard when you are going to throw it and it is as effective in service to you as a hefty grenade would be - and also perhaps as dangerous. You need to be accurate and well timed.

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    3. If you are hoist by your own petard, you have seriously screwed up.

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  3. I am put in mind of someone about to fling that thing, and being small and a bit dim, forgets to let go of the rope. =)

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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.


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