Limbo is a place or an idea that crops
Up fairly often like if you’re in Starbucks
Someone will say I’m in limbo about it
Or I was in limbo about it until recently.
But what do we really mean by limbo
Or by in limbo since limbo itself is
Pretty much always preceded by in?
You almost never hear limbo alone.
At one time I thought limbo meant
The same thing as between a rock
And a hard place so you could say
That if you didn’t want to say limbo.
But between a rock and a hard place
Implies a certain amount of tension
Like when you pull on both ends of
A rubber band which is unlike limbo.
The whole idea of limbo is how there’s
No tension or no energy of any sort
And limbo is just kind of lying there
Like when there’s flotsam and jetsam.
Instead of limbo you might also say
Six of one half a dozen of another or
Hobson’s Choice whatever that is but
None of them are exactly like limbo.
Now do you see what I’m getting at?
Do you see how by writing these lines
About limbo that are in limbo themselves
I’ve shown you what limbo is instead of
Only just telling you about limbo?
Because it’s hard to define limbo
Like it’s hard to define the color blue
So you tell them to look at the sky.
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Author: Mitch Sisskind
