Tuesday, September 22, 2009

How to Win Friends and Influence People in PoBiz


The Golden Rule:

Pity the poor, precious
Ordinary reader, poet--

Easy on the effluent;
Don't suck him in.



Sunday, September 20, 2009

Déjà vu


My god every time

He reached for the sky

To be saved, he was plumb
Gone over the edge before

He knew what hit him.


Saturday, September 19, 2009

Reaper

Hell, we all know you

Cut a mean, wide swath but
Before you get carried away

With all that useless fodder,
Don't tell anybody anything

That can be used against you
Till your dying day.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Poet as Archaeologist


This man smiles at the coming of autumn,
The silence of cicadas makes him laugh;
even the wind-scatter of leaves pleases him.

Tired of digging in, he is digging out
from under the ruins of his measured words,
while his ancestors, having escaped him,

turn round and smile at the distance between.

(from Sentences, 1976)


Tuesday, September 15, 2009

D=O=G=G=E=R=E=L

bending

meaning over
backwards

mongrels vow
to screw

the purebred language
bitches

bow

a posteriori

wow.

(from The Intricate Evasions of As)


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