Paired sonnets

‘“Instant Gratification Isn’t Quick Enough”’

~ attributed to a Dollywood starlet/harlot’ and “Atlantics and Pacifics Stacked on Top of One Another”’

Decide upon the way that you will drown.

Decide to drown in knowledge and in books

And in this AI age don’t wear a gown

From academe.  Just cast your nets and hooks

In Chatbot GPT.   Why bother with

Encyclopedias lined up on shelves

In libraries — when you can get the pith

Of what you want from internet e-elves?

Don’t trudge through actual learning.  The facts

In dusty tomes will only weigh down on

Your Faust-like breakthroughs.  If you want strong acts,

Intelligentsia brings on slow dawn.

  You want an instant triumph.  Never mind

     All but quickest gratification’s rind.

 

Atlantics and Pacifics Stacked on Top of One Another

Or you can drown in love—or maybe loves.

One love might do it if it’s fierce enough

And if the man himself gives massive shoves

Inside you, and if they are lovely, gruff

And overwhelming in your heart and guts.

Or maybe love is what you do not need

Involved in cluster fucks, the cocks and butts

And cunts are quite complete for trapping seed,

So love, true love is not required.  Such love,

Agape love, might be your aim to fill

Your lust for drowning.  Maybe one huge dove

Of Holy Spirit might be your big thrill.

  Your one big thrill in drowning then would be

    That suffocation in divinity.

~ Phillip  Whidden