As querulous as the conscientious may be
In linguistic confrontations of conformity,
The ins and outs of conservative rages
Can fill infinite pages of wordful rages
That only blunt the dance of creativity.
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The twists and turns of grammatical consistency
Plague doubts that squids and mice communicate
In intricacies that challenge universes of odd intricacies
Far beyond the plods of human conventional tradition,
Since their inherent vocalizations of mousy squeaks
Can manage sonic tapestries in mousical vibrations
Far outside the abilities of the human sonic range
And their love songs sing in melodies of cosmical spheres
To the feeble orchestrations that cage human ears.
The squids, to speak in tentacular observations
Converse in rainbows striped and blossomed
On their skins, most cleverly conversational,
To leap through philosophies of colors that smile
And speculate in reds and blues and purple investigations
Wherein a rather liquid view of aesthetics and ardor flashes
Far beyond the grammaticals of mere words that fumble
Over the fundamentals of raw perceptions such as vanilla,
Such as the simple color patterns in plaids, paisley or floral
Unconveyable to one born blind using the merely oral.
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Wittgenstein clearly realized that vocal lions would be a puzzle
Outside human comprehension since their orientation
Is alien, no surprise, to what we apish minds can grasp and analyze.
Discussing honey with a bee might find parallels to agree
But Shakespeare or Lewis Carroll leads one to see
The strict limits of possibility.
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To carry this one step beyond, in a life of self contemplation,
I find myself a creature incomprehensible, emplaced
Within a social universe crisscrossed in perversities
Where lions and squids seem more sensible than what I see
Within myself, a labyrinth of collapsed probabilities
Well outside my most dexterous capabilities.