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11-21-2002 Kay Lee Kelly
Less is more, as ony you can show, Love this.
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11-19-2002 Lyle Berry
Beloved Reader:
If you are confused, here is my analysis of this poem. It has been dissected to the max. This may give you some insights into a truly disturbed mind. Lol! Just kidding? I don’t do this for every poem or I’d never get time to write another.
“Science Fiction” is about Love. The poet sees his love for his beloved as “Science Fiction,”
because it is more like a product of someone’s imagination than the real thing – a creation, not real.
The love is his to feel and offer and suffer, but it is not reciprocal, so it feels like science fiction.
It is a form of addiction, because he craves it and has to have it to survive, even though it fills him with grief (makes him sad, miserable). Thus “Science Fiction, Grief addiction” is his depiction (conceived portrayal) of his love – that’s how he sees it.
In fact, the relationship is so morbidly saddening, it is like some horrible scary movie on “Shock Theatre” (an old late night TV program from the 50’s and early 60’s that featured black and white films of Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, etc.) which would bring often give him nightmares as a kid. The relationship is scary and gives him bad dreams afterwards (“later, “ or in retrospect) when forced by circumstances (pushed) to the limits of endurance (shoved). See ya “later Alligator” (‘afterwhile crocodile’) is the contrived tie to the expression (and song lyric) from the same era as “Shock.”
“Optimism, phony prism” is about the poet’s attitude toward his personal hopefulness. The light (symbolizing Life) is distorted through the phony prism of optimism (kind of like seeing the world through rose colored glasses). Instead of light (Life) being accurately refracted into its constituent spectrum of colors (reality), optimism makes it become “rainbow jism” in his brain (sort of a colorful symbol of the useless byproduct of a mind rape).
The science fiction is only that (a concocted tale), hence it is sans conviction (lacks true belief) and gives the poet a tendency towards and fondness for insanity (“predilection to insane”) – a reference to the probable refuge for him in mental anguish. He sees his relationship as a product of his midlife-crisis- driven desire for a young, passionate love affair. This “wetdream” (empty, adolescent experience) resembles a childish idea as transient and intangible as moonbeams, which, without substance, one cannot capture or hold on to (“you can’t save”).
Finally, the science fiction (unreal love, because it is unrequited) is portrayed as a “false prediction,” since the poet initially was deluded to believe that the love would become a dream realized (would become real) in the future. Lastly, the poet sees himself totally devastated by the relationship and dead with the finally blessings being administered at his funeral (“Benediction at my grave”).
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11-19-2002 Angie Engle
This poem is so interesting and really gets my mind thinking. I like what it says. Great poem!
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