I took to this particular stanza more than the others (although, good poem all the smae):

"This had to happenTo snip the links that bind and crickThe pricked cataclysmic bleeding brick"

This poem, you really used ryhme(sp? it is the morning w/o coffee) nicely in this one. Made the reading process (and according to my critical approaches class, I'm now talking about the VIRTUAL TEXT!) quite enjoyable.

Isn't that quaint, you say that your stuff isn't happy-go-lucky, and yet I still enjoy each one...hm, maybe I have a complex...

~Magnus

You know, oftentimes, people go out of their way to make things rhyme without realizing that the end product does not make much sense (or, worse, resorts to headache-inducing cliches). This is not the case here. Each rhyme is used is a sharp and delicate as a rapier. Each word is packed with interconnected meaning that caused the reader to stop and contemplate what exactly it means in the context of the larger sentence and the poem itself. One again, the word play is brilliant. My only problem is that, at times, one is left unsure as to the meaning of some of the lines, even after repeated rereadings. But that's minor. Great job.