Friday, December 29, 2006

Charlie in a bubble: Ode to Autism

Prologue
Charlie in a bubble
msitau, situam,
sit man, 'tis uam.
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Charlie poet laureate
spells and binds
words in detail
beligerent beauty

Charlie angelic reasoning
purist and wordsmith
frighteningly clear
frighteningly right

Charlie creates
new meaning and depth
profound simplicity
Genius innocence


Charlie transfixes and hypnotise
bounces and dances
pure joy
purely right

Charlie hostile hospitality
fears fatality
anxious future
in everyday worlds

Charlie won't unwrap
sees through
super and ficial
meaningless "things"

Charlie poet laureate
pure poetry purely
with such logic steals hearts
understands us all.

Charlie literally literal
knows what it means
understands his world
gives meaning to ours
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Epilogue
Charli's autism
Not ought-ism
but is -ism
can-ism and will-ism