Notice of absence from Tristan Robert Lange
I am lagging slightly in my responses to comments on my poems due to a crazy schedule. I will be catching up on them soon. I have read them all and will find the time to respond, but did not want you to think I was ghosting. In the meantime, and always:
Read, Write, Rise, Realize.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
I am lagging slightly in my responses to comments on my poems due to a crazy schedule. I will be catching up on them soon. I have read them all and will find the time to respond, but did not want you to think I was ghosting. In the meantime, and always:
Read, Write, Rise, Realize.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
i woke up in earnest,
the day set before me—
carpe diem...
or is it the Diet of Carp?—
worm on a hook—
fish swim in to school me
crap all the same.
i’m the butt of the joke
in a club full of jokers,
ego strokers,
denial smokers,
delusion tokers.
culpably high-floating
on their own clouds
of complacency.
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, May 18, 2026.
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Comments6
Orchi...in advance, yes, there is a Diet of Glug too! And we all know who wants that! 🤣
A fun play on words and their meaning. Enjoyed the rhyme play as well. Isn't life a word play as well with misunderstandings and careful choice of words to not offend or maybe offend. In this we are all the jokers and butt of the joke. All a matter of view. Well written my friend
Argh! An English King, Henry I, I think, died from a surfeit of lampreys - horrid things to eat, eel-like things. Never had one in my life, and not about to start now either. Meanwhile, P eats them with spinach I reckon. lol. What can WCAT reveal to us? Nothing, of course! heehee.
By there fruits you shall know them.
The play on words both wax sharply! Brandishing and clashing ⚔️🤺🙏🏻🕊️
Excellent write,Tristan. Clever at that!
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