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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