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sings like a canary

river

post-gutenberg adjustments

rhyme and meter, so important before gutenberg in the life of a poem, in the promulgation of the news as poets see fit to parse the news, have been reduced in importance to the level of the other tropes, and those yet undeveloped.

time now to quit converting trees to books.

fill vast cyberspace with poetry – it’ll keep away the creeps and theives, probably pigs, dolts and liars, too!

– tR

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apples and oranges

would make a good name
for a poetry review, a thing
or place where poems could hash it out
amongst themselves with the minimal mediation
of the poet still drawing oxygen from the room,
if not also a paycheck from you know who, too.

– tR

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everything

happens by coincidence –
so tells us the poetic adage:
all time is contemporaneous.

– tR

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pronoun liberation army

pronouns are people too! at birth,
they got the ungodly job of being
perpetual stand-ins, also-rans along
the hollow road to fame for people, places,
and things who trademark names and make people pay
through the teeth for crappy stuff branded one way or another
– never both, only one, the other model cost a quarter more.

– tR

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beatnik ode

all that we endure
is not durable
first wave babies
from the baby boom
got the first products
pushed onto the street
by the embryonic moron*-
industrial complex, a.k.a.
the cultural economy: betsy wetsy
dolls and maynard g. krebs action figures.

daydreamer rebels dressed up in auto-distressed sweatshirts.

*look it up: mcnamara’s morons

– tR

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over-mediated

leads to over-medicated
as in the opioid epidemic
was so easy for a few new englanders
to cook up because me and you accept
a myriad of media in between
the truth and the product.

-tR

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