He said take a word and build from that,
I took ‘contemporaneity’ –
that is to say modernity, concurrent,
of the era, fitting in to the period…
You’ll go out in a blaze of glory
he complained, there’s seven
syllables there – what made you chose it?
The seven syllables I guess...
I want to quibble with the times a bit.
I am a contemporaneous man.
© 2007-02-12 I.D. Carswell
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