i
ignorance is profuse
ignorance ever ‘mounting
ignorance sounding clues
to vacant armies surrounding
ii
ignorance knows squat about karma
ignorance does know jokes about yo mama
ignorance shrill and vile
it exists to sicken and spits verbal bile
iii
ignorance like wine spilled on a fine table cloth
ignorance sees no irony in a pastel goth
ignorance only wants to win
easy, jig, ignorance lets the air in
iv
ignorance is sesequipedalian
ignorance is mainly mammalian
ignorance is an ever spreading disease
like evil, the second concept of being
Saragun Springs 
Leila
Today brings a mind-blowing literary synchronicity that is worth recording for the record books.
Late last night I was working on a poem that has the Roman poet Horace in it as a character.
Then today in your brilliant poem I encountered the word SESQUIPEDALIAN and had to look it up.
Looking up the word, I was, happily, astonished to find that the word was coined BY NONE OTHER THAN THE ROMAN POET HORACE, the very writer I had been thinking about so deeply last night.
I was having doubts about my poem last night but now I feel total confidence in this work, because of this (mystical) literary synchronicity.
Literature is all about connection, and connections, in multiple senses of both those terms.
This is one of those poetic events that I truly see as a magical thing, among other reasons because it “rescued” a poem I was fond of but was also thinking of deleting, or at least putting away for years.
I think the spirit of Horace has presided over this event and I know the spirit of literature has!
Dale
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Dale
That is amazing. It had been years since I had read sesquipedalian; so long I had forgotten the meaning (I do not believe I have ever heard it spoken). I saw it recently and thought it would be a good word for the Judge (who will certainly like it down the line).
And, yes, when I looked it up there was the attribution to goold old Horace (love that same–also the MC in the Foote story the other day).
It is a strangely marvelous and yet dark world, but it would not have art if it were easily explained.
Take care (love the latest group of pics you sent for next week)
Leila
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Your ability with the rhyme and the reinvention of rhyme is a beautiful thing, the essence of what is meant when we say “creative writing” (and thinking).
This is a prophetic poem that nails the essence of the world’s key problem. It brings light, and rings true, like The Dunciad of Alexander Pope.
D
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…I think that squirrel is astonished by his own attempts to pronounce “sesquipedalian”….
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That is my friend Puck
He is the Big Cheese at the park down the street. Not at all ignorant (well, for a Rodent), he is amazed by “the folly of man” as sung by Blue Oyster Cult in Godzilla.
Leila
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….the Hemingway allusion is also brilliant…
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Thank you!
That line he wrote, about the air, which I first saw at age fourteen, still resonates with me. Dunno why I used it but it felt right and still does..Leila
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