Epicurean dreams of anorexia
Thru my qualms of absurd clamouring,
thru the hypostases pythagorean stairwell;
of an MC Escher abandoned architecture in Thais
I wandered aimlessly
seeking to find
aponia
but thru baccahanal meanderings of anathema
fell leeways
to
ataraxia.
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Inspired by In Thais by Anatole France
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Submitted by awarlock00 on September 26, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
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| Words | 36 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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