UNENFORCEABLE PROMISE
The party of the first part
to this most personal service contract –
departed
Scratch that clause
on successors and assigns
Our vow to love forever?
Void ab initio
per the statute of frauds
- not to impugn or imply
a deceptive intent
The existence of mutual mistake
- a flaw in formation -
is not material
yet loop-de-loops
through my head
A closed track clacks and shuttles
an infinitely regressive plea
v. renvoi
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This was prompted by qaartsiluni's upcoming Words of Power issue.
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Oh. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAre you going to submit, then?
ReplyDeleteDale: what a novel characterization for legal language. Between the bungled Latin terms and tone-deaf lawyers, most legal writing is not art but assault.
ReplyDeleteDave: The theme is calling to me, obviously, but I haven't yet decided what to submit. I need to stretch towards some new mantras.
:-) shorthand for "beautifully done," I guess. Beautiful, no, legal language is not often that.
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