when I watch the knightly sword being forged on youtube

I think it almost looks like a big old jewel                still red and hissing

 

the pinching and hammering again       again      and I sit there

on my stool

sit there like a metal-clad dickhead                   like a 2-keen flâneur

intrigued and staring at the emerging blade cuz its boned like a back

a spine running hilt 2 tip

2 sided and double faced codes of the knight

spirituality/secularity           brutality/mercy

sometimes a soft heart but always         always a tough mind?

(well that’s what the subtitles are saying anyway)

 

and the sword is taking shape now

its symbolism venn diagram-ing in ways that are just   2   damn   clear     2 me now

a longgggggg and phallic reenactment of illusionment and trickery

 

wow

 

2 distracted by its glint and reflection 2 consider that

it’s the steels aura      that intrigues me

no

not its sharp and violent tongue

but rather              its capacity as art

of duality and craftsmanship

 

on a sword subreddit a/anonymoose5544 asks:

sword id needed pls. Fake? Real?

 

i’ll tell you mr   telepathically but also in real life    with my brand new sword magic

that it’s both real and fake all at once

 

yep                         the artifice and pretence of it all is     2     real

 

bc some things have           2 meanings and others none       right?

bc isn’t all material meaning measured by the meaning you impart onto it?

2 bad that most things are usually just pretending    2 be legit then

222* bad that this poem is also pretending 2 be legit

 

p r e t e n d i n g that excalibur’s   fat   nose is not still deep in that rock

hah

i’m not watching the sword video   silly              YOU are.

 

 

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*Google says that 222 means true love is coming or a soulmate is near

 

 

 

Lily-Rose Pouget is an emerging writer based in Naarm.

 

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