History: put out your eyes as if they were a fire

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I wrote a poem in reaction to [http://www.srv.net/~ram/metaphor.html|Rick Morneau's call to avoid metaphor in conlangs]. See [http://satirist.org/whale/|the Daily Whale] from [http://satirist.org/whale/2001/07/10.html|10 July 2001]. ''A Note to Artificial Language Designers'' Put out your eyes as if they were a fire. Put out your eyes as if they were the trash. Put out your eyes: They're just a metaphor. Now let's get down and mosh. I actually have a lot to say about metaphor. I suppose someday I'll get around to saying it. ''mi'e ((jezrax))'' ---- ''About as oblique as ((Michael Helsem|helsem)), only in English instead of zirpu.'' Neither of us seems oblique to me ''zo'o''. I don't feel fluent enough to write in verse yet, but I'm learning. I have some ideas about how to adapt verse forms to the nature of the language. ''mi'e ((jezrax))''