for Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 20 November 2020, paradox.
Achilles and the tortoise decide to have a race,
Achilles gives a headstart, so confident of pace,
They line up at their start-points, official fires his gun,
Achilles thinking surely that race would soon be won.
Achilles shoots out of the blocks, he makes a flying start,
If he can keep this pace up, tortoise will soon be caught,
He saw the tortoise start-line, he urged himself “come on”,
But when he reached the start-line, the tortoise had moved on.
He saw the tortoise up there, a little way ahead,
“Not too far”, thought Achilles, “I’ll leave this guy for dead”,
He raced behind the tortoise, as graceful as a swan.
But when he reached the tortoise, the tortoise had moved on.
He wasn’t far ahead now, they were not far apart,
Achilles sees the tortoise, and runs with all his heart,
Achilles staggers forward, this feels like marathon,
But when he reached the tortoise, the tortoise had moved on.
Achilles now exhausted, collapsed in a heap,
It only goes to show how much Achilles’ talk was cheap,
And the moral of the story, I’ll end this nice and neat,
Don’t race against a tortoise, he’ll surely have you beat!
Xeno’s Paradox. If anybody has any time today, I found a fascinating article about other famous paradoxes here. It’s about a ten-minute read.
Mister Bump 
A very funny poem Mr B!
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…..and I have just read the paradox link. I am now totally confused, or as Ken Dodd would have said, discomknockerated!
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I quite liked that link but have yet to see a confused crocodile 🤣
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Proper poetry.
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Excellent. I spent the morning looking at paradoxes too. I quite enjoy them! 🙂
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A fantastic and fun poem! A great take on the tortoise and hare and wonderful use of the prompt to. Excellent work!
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Thanks Mason. How is that dictation going? I see you’re managing to put stuff out there, I see there is one of your’s in my queue.
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Hello, the diction is getting better and quicker with each story I write now. It has moments where it spouts utter gibberish! but yeah, its going quite well now. Thank you for asking.
How are you doing?
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Ok generally, but had a really shitty day. Discovered a problem around 6PM and have been fixing it ever since.
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Sorry tohear you’re having a bad day . problems arising in the evening are always a bigger pain than normal.
I hope you can resolve it soon.
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I will respond by your contact form (if you have one).
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Okay sure. There is a contact form in the drop down box. You’ll be the first to ever use it.
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Yeah, found it no problem.
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Great. And it worked! thank you for testing it for me lol. Now, we’ll see if you get my reply.
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Your poetry is always so enjoyable. I’m not usually a big fan of poetry, but yours is quite consumable.
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That is very deliberate. I try to make the reader smile, but the first goal is just to make it comprehensible. If it leaves people scratching their heads, what’s the point?
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I remember being sent to detention in high school when the English teacher called on me and asked me what I thought the poet was saying. I responded, “How the fuck would I know what the poet was saying? It’s incomprehensible.”
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It can be quite useful in terms of thinking of the words to use. I want to say X, Y and Z in 1 line etc, or “I need a word which means X, but which scans 3 syllables”. So I suppose we’re more deliberate when we pick words. Some, anyhow. Others, I’m afraid, do just look like they’ve typed some carriage returns in pretty much random places. Let’s see what I can come up with today.
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Actually it is quite funny because every other bloody response today is a poem too. Bet you enjoy reading them. In a masochistic kinda way!
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