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Entries in ideas (5)

Saturday
Apr182009

The River Overhead

Swivel your brain in an other direction
to baptize your bean in the ocean of notions.
What you might catch is a welcome infection;
no knowing what grows in that musical potion

Sunday
Apr052009

Cargo Cult

The art of a fact lies in juxtaposition;
words boxcar'ed together particularly.
But open these boxcars and mostly they're empty;
books are just maps, territorially.

Wednesday
May212008

Communifate

To express an idea you can make all explicit
or work in allusions to content implicit,
but that is no matter, some folks will still miss it.

Friday
Mar282008

Complex

Complexity's fun for complexity's sake;
complexity's often quite easy to fake.
Just take something nobody seems to be using,
and make it more roundabout, odd, or confusing,
then hand it right back, and what happens nex
if nobody gets the idea -- it's complex!

Friday
Mar282008

Simple

Simple is not very simple, you see;
simple for you is not simple for me.
Win a race? Simple, you just need some "fast".
Simple is small, but connected to vast.