Conversations With Busts

By Michael Piok

A collection of poems that shrouds and wings you away on a journey into a fantasy. There is a metaphysical realm of ideas and concepts, let's call it Pangaea, which each individual has access to, trawls and scours to gather pieces of ideas and concepts to construct, through stories or other art forms, an imagined "other better world" and to conjure up a "better reality" altogether. The pieces that follow represent goosestepping into that metaphysical realm or Pangaea and the encounters a voyager might find themselves in; or should be weary of when the mind travel yonder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tellwell Talent
• Release date: Jan 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9780228855651

Michael Piok

Michael Piok is the author of many poems and fiction writings that are popular in blog posts. His accolades include the City of Toronto Mayoral Award as well as an Excellence Award from his alma mater, the University of Toronto. He is well known in literary circles as a one of a kind inventor of tales and fables.

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Conversations With Busts

Copyright © 2022 by Michael Piok

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Prologue

Stories were us, stories are us and stories are what we would like to be. In stories and fiction, we invent men and women, we invent their universes, curate their lives, their adventures, their triumphs. We admire these narratives, the invented people, their lives and their adventures. We tell and retell these stories to ourselves; again and again to occasion in us the desire to actualize these fictions. For instance, in 1937 when J. R. R. Tolkien was still writing The Lord of the Rings, The Middle Earth, Frodo and all the events in it can be said to have existed solely in a realm that the mind of J. R. R. Tolkien could access or conjure up as a story. Decades later, Middle Earth and the entire Lord of The Rings’ universe accessed or conjured up by Tolkien’s mind became widely inspirational and embodied not only as an artistic work on the screens and through plays in the 2000s; but became so embodied in real lives of ordinary people as well. In essence, this is to bring forth other worlds or heavens from the realm of the imagined. It is to bring a conception that had hitherto existed solely in our minds down to earth and to augment our base reality with it. This modality of bringing forth imagined worlds or imagined objects to the realm of the tangible is the modality of emergence of the whole of our reality, sofas, doorknobs, phones...

There is a metaphysical realm of ideas and concepts, let’s call it Pangaea, which each individual has access to, trawls and scours to gather pieces of ideas and concepts to construct, through stories or other art forms, an imagined other better world and to conjure up a better reality altogether. The pieces that follow represent goose-stepping into that metaphysical realm or Pangaea and the encounters a voyager might find themselves in; or should be weary of when the mind travel yonder.

The Donkeys Took my Job

The Donkeys took my Job.

You see, I heard later that the farm work

I came for was given to the Donkey

although I came before the Donkey for it.

So the Donkey worked besides the Horse,

Which had already been hired earlier.

But just after two months into the job,

the Donkey could not take any more of it

and so it ran away