What Is Space

what is                                                                                                                                       space
                 

is the clean part of the poetry page
unsullied by words
usually on the right-hand side >>

                                               << sometimes the wrong-hand side


that my friend is a poem ~ your lightbulb moment ~ space maketh the poem
still you say                                              uh     huh

only because  they never taught you that at school I bet
or those creative writing classes..colon

                                                                                                                                                          okay
                         so today we will learn about how to do perfect space and challenge words


                              Great poets have always utilised space - discuss

Answer (without calculator):

pan-psychists dropping naut droplets and flying
the sweat lodge the shaman the cactus
mother ayahuasca flew to space more than nasa
a garden gnome a tea cosy a non-gender specific air cabin crew trolley..

n           ever                                                                                                  ot
a
s           traight                                                                                              pace
a          nswer                                                                                               gency


Answer (with calculator):

operation paperclip formula

                                                    = what could go wrong


End of Answer


I sometimes spend more time filling in the space
than

       f
           a
             /

                  __
                        !
                          
                                Z
                            
                                       g
                                                 on the words
the words are incidental
have you any idea the poet-thought that goes into thinking of
                                                         

                                                                e
                                         c

                   a

                                         p

                                                                 s
                                                                                          

philistines might argue
all the trees that would be saved
all that space that would be saved
if poetry was not a thing
like a soft drink that claims to be the real thing ~ that real

question scientific orthodoxy will get you banned for being unorthodox
so i will say my mind is outside my head
in the past esp still existed
hang on to the streisand effect
as scientific materialists phase-locking fear mission-drift
they do not believe miracles exist ~ apart from their big baaaang..

fewer pages equal fewer murdered trees
no tortured men with tresses
see what I did there
trees/ tresses
when was the last time a dinosaur did that
or a tree.. 

                           r         s           e
                  t                p                   e
                                     a
                                     c
                                     e
                                     =
                                                                                                                                                                                              
how many virtual trees and dinosaurs have died just for that last five lines
and if you were not reading this they would still be alive
you encouraged me to write this

do not dare pass the buck

your fault entirely

you are not the victim here
 
                                            it is all mememememe                              with you

s            pac                            e                                          s                pac                              e

(for beginners
the space above has been underlined for ease of reference
like the space above)

if dinosaurs were dead french wordsmiths named

m                  allar
        me
they might have bulldozed their horns on trees

<<                                                       




                                                                         >>and make more of that  (see above)

if a dinosaur dropped on a forest
would this word make a sound..


        
                  would said dinosaur still be alive today
or certainly no deader than mallarme..

and they would have evolved
ditched their lizard scales
for tresses ~ manly tortured poet tresses
if poetry was their thing ~ manes flowing
maidens sitting astride racing tyrannosauruses pondering buttercups..

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the planet too might be in better shape
or then again perhaps not
fewer trees = less carbon dioxide from trees yes
so yeah it is all good
I am saving the planet
that is why the dinosaurs died
all the trees killed them..

~ when there were no poets
and now everywhere there are tortured men with tresses
making space where dead trees once lived
pumping out carbon dioxide
in a sick dinosaur-population reduction scam..

no wonder trees never sport tresses..

 the                                space
was hanging out the wrong side back then..

deforestation must continue
or tree-carbon dioxide will kill us all
the way they wiped out the mythic dinosaurs...