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Saturday, September 21, 2019
Closure For Beginners Up Against A Wall
The next time you feel
A desire to execute
The
poem
Of your life, make sure
You wind it up with a blank
Sheet of paper.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Suddenly, Phlegm
What on Earth
were
you
Expecting, poet? The expected almost
Never comes when expected—
If and when it does decide
To make its entrance,
More often than not
It acts as if it were
An indifferent ephemeron
Setting down miniscule droppings
On the tip of your dumbstricken tongue,
While all you can do is expectorate,
Expectorate profusely till kingdom come.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Being An Irreverent, Albeit Clean Defence Of Nihilism
As long as the blank
Page insists on
Staying immaculate
White, what appears
Out of nothing
In the end
Must be predicated
On how well
Our maker conceived
The abject absurdness
Of his maculate plight.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
In Passing, Dear Heavenly Demiurge
Though it has nothing whatsoever
To do with language
Right or wrong, just fondle
Sweet basil once ever so
Lightly and its scent stays full
Of innocent angels years after
You’re long gone.
Monday, September 9, 2019
Haiku: Carmina Trumpana
One fragment follows
One more equally broken
Specious argument.
Saturday, September 7, 2019
What We, As Law-Abiding, Solid Citizens Of A Great Nation, Are Discouraged From Acknowledging
Hear, hear—
That auspicious
Gritty feeling that keeps
Gnawing fitfully
Against the gristly hollow
Of our most nauseously fitting
Specious inner ear.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
75-Year-Old Pedestrian Versifier Temporarily Stopped In His Tracks By 7th Century BC Fragments Of Archilochos
[ ] [ ]
[ ] [ ] damn it all
[ ] [ ] Startled that [we?] are
[ ] [ ] only now
Starting [where?]
To realize just how
[ ] [ ]
Moving this all is, [isn’t] it
Too bad we can’t
[ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
Put it in reverse
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