Challenge
"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"
"Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote) Poetry or prose.
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In the Manor of Racine
Having carried Don
astride
over valleys, and strange ravines
linking rising and fading
daze
In whimpered race
chided as Rocin, workhorse
the fool, illiterate
buffoon
seems only right
in irony, Rocinante
to admit
aforehand unbridled
to never having read Dulcinea
to tale's end, were there such,
whipped up
by wishful thinking &
packing hardbound copy
for many, many years in saddle pack
never quite
reaching homestead
each sentence
sinking before the eyes
to sleep
as if by Cervantes himself
forming this quixotic idea:
depart from the line
the crop
(story or thought)
as it were, for unlike the back
of beasts of burden
the path
beaten,
is not yet, beat
2024 AUG 21