​​​​Stewart Dawson

Aquious Humor

​Well ders aquious humor

in da eyeball

I got a bad brain tumor

from tha highball.

I loves dem eyeball 

in da socket

don't put it down,

don't knock it.

People runnin to and fro

don't know zacktly where to go

caint see,

caint be.

Poor humans,

still fumins.

Independent commentary

Walter Cronkite gives de news

tadpoles frozen in de ice

still singin ice cold blues.

And while we're on tha subject

Harry Reasoner gives his views.

But people still wont listen,

keep on payin Union dues.

Keep your eye on tha ball

and your nose to tha stone.

Buckle down you no good ingrate​

wear your fingers to tha bone.

(circa 1969, 1970)

Note: the original copy was printed twice; one copy in red and another copy in blue. The pages were placed on top of each other just slightly off register, held up to the light and read with a pair of red-blue 3-D glasses. Voila! 3-D poetry! My high-school English teacher was not afraid of me, but she didn’t know zacktly what to think. I made an “A” in English class which was most unusual. (Aquious is actually spelled: aqueous.

aqueous humor   n. (1643): a transparent fluid occupying the space between the crystalline lens and the cornea of the eye.

aqueous humor   Anat.  The limpid, watery fluid that fills the space between the cornea and the lens in the eye.