140 Shorties II

<i>140 Shorties II [More Verse Bits]</i> may be something of an added insistence or infliction in the world. The collection's essential motif which is of a quasi-form that includes evidently interlocking aspects in terms of titles that often blatantly rhyme with each other might seem hopelessly ingrown and juvenile. The ultimate effect despite any apparent expressed and re-expressed sadness or misery is likely to be a very playful back-and-forth sort of thing.</p><P>The individual versifications which sometimes internally rhyme and sometimes don't rhyme and which seldom evince anything very much like standard meter are brief indeed-no longer usually than about 35 words. Here are a couple of samples.</p><P>WANDER <br>Wander about <br>and imagine a doubt<br>evidently ready<br>to turn us unsteady. <br>At about-say-dawn<br>forest and lawn<br>present a new dew<br>akin to you. <br>Varied surmises<br>yield new surprises. </p>SQUANDER<br>Squander all money<br>provided by concerns<br>bigger than small. <br>Certain sums of<br>potency and power<br>are likely nothings<br>that nonetheless<br>may shimmer hugely. <br>To flip or slip<br>currency remains<br>very sporting.</P>