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Frank Poems: FINNEGAN BEGINNEGAN

Finnegans Wake

Flibbertigibbing amid a Hibernian haze

of morphemic blips in a syllabic maze,

where twisted syntax and recondite rhyme

ring Babel’s blind bells in back-to-front time,

consonants cacaphone in vocalic vortices,

while morphology marinates exegetes’ cortices.

 

Laced with a plethora of lexical play,

sentences wobble and slither away,

consciousness cascades, language unravels

into a stream of bibliobibulous bubbles

and if ever you manage to arrive at the end

you’ll find that it all starts over again.

 

Finnegans Wake is a linguistic spree.

S.O.S.

Adrift

on a semiotic sea.

"House by the Railroad," Edward Hopper, 1925