false impression
the devil is in the details,
bathing languidly in effets de soir—
he tells me not to look
for it's happened all too many times before;
the rationalist, fearing the honest gaussian blur
of en plein air,
pays generous charity to clarity
and is blind come morning
exempli gratia:
the achaeans off to troy
totalling 1,186 ships of 142,320 men
were divorced from narrative
and stranded 266 verses away from land
a terrible shame, considering
no two men saw the same soleil levant, and thus
142,320 mornings were lost