@ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Overheard In Ancient Egypt

Bring the Lettuce, erect in its bowl, and garnish it

with your released sweetening---

iridescent and glistening---

harvested from that lavender bulb now blossoming.


Do not stoop to comply with silly inhibitions

by which society imposes its most repressive conditions.


Bring the statue of Smenkhkare, beautiful in his adolescence;

and let us bring homoge to his obvious and natural tumescence.


J-Called

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

They tell me that ancient Egyptians considered lettuce to be a phallic symbol.


The first line is a parody of a line from Wallace Stevens' poem, "Certain Phenomena Of Sound," ii.


The word "homoge" is not an uncorrected typo:  it is, instead, a variation on the word homage as a kind of pun, its first four letters meant as significant.

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