From epigraph to epitaph
My epic is a pictograph
Graphically depicting an epithet
Of the e'pithiness I beget
.
Festooned within an epigram
Sums up who I really am
From my swaddled cradle to my toppled grave
Gravely gave my all — then forgave
.
From my trumble in the womb
To the crumble of my tomb
Extrapolated my epithet
Of vignettes sinned without regret
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My life proceeded Gaussian
All my motion speeded Brownian
Followed linear: beginning to middle — to end'd
Nosedove, sloped down, from the slope I began, ascended
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Presumed regally alive or declared legally dead
My life, all planned and lived, was all in my head
Colliding with the others who happenstanced their ways
Into mine and breached my entranceways
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I assumed a nom de plume
In life lived in the bedded room
Making creatures of epithelium
To seed the interstellar medium
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I started in a bang, on-rushed
Doomed to fall into the epic crush
Episodes repeating in redundant splendors
And connect, ends to starts, to epicenters
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Those from the ilk of my same cloth
Will follow on silk, my coattails, forth
But when all episodes are said and done
My epilogue will be — from one to none
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned Catholic church in Hull, MA. Phase I: was New Orleans (and everything that entails).
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
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Comments (5)
Well-wrought! Makes me think of Bukowski's epitaph, a mystic double entendre: "Don't try." That old Gaussian curve can be a slippery slope. Best just to say thanks... but nope!
Always so much fun word play and rhymes every which way 😁
Fantastic flow & rhyming!!! Epics timing!!! Loved it!!!❤️❤️💕
Deftly crafted, witty and self-deprecating verse. Well done!
Nice job.