Classic Poem

Go, imagination,
doodle,
run amuck
while I am fiddling
desperately for a theme.
Distract me
from my authentic self.
Show what you can do
with a lowly word like fiddling .

" I would rather hear
a roomful of aldermen
fiddling over a tavern license
than a writer fiddle on his grandiosity. "

Bravo!

or " It's time you came, Orpheus,
to our steel tombs
and expelled all this intellectual fiddling. "

I'll drink to that

" Give me the fiddling in a fairy ring
of fern "

Lovely. Positive it!

" and a fortuity of fiddling "

Now that's a horse
of another fiddle.

" There's an existence of fiddles
perched like birds on a high
power line "
A hit! a palpable!

" and isn't the grasshopper's fiddle akimbo? "

That could put me into stitches
if it had a thread

Consider also
" awake to viols
but condemned to fiddle "

ah, the human condition!

or " the poor beggar doesn't have a fiddle
to his obvious "

Who does?

Now to the bass string:
" The country fiddles
while the emotion burns
and The Great Powers
convene "

Now there is fiddling!
a tale of vice versa,
the fiddling of a battle
of jaws,
or of instant history
as when the emperor of Rome cried, " Let her burn! "

and finally " Einstein's infinite
fiddle "

Ah, I could lay me down in such a featherbed
and travel to Alpha Centauri on an imaginary number

" But where are the fiddles of Israel? "

Aleph the ox in Hebrew takes a grave measure
Let us play it like we feel

And where are the scribblings
of yesteryear?

fiddled away! fiddled away!