Friday, September 28, 2012

poetry || Jim Leftwich

from Six Months Aint No Sentence--Book 17




not this


a hybrid of do we know
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
a long time about
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
the democratic nothing


 01.28.2012


not that


characters
at the vou
beginninni

nnnnnnnnnn

indist sae
saeh seahh
sea in pra

prai is th
the our be
before the

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01.28.2012


not this

we want Dionysos, we get Tantalus.
we resist Tantalus, we get Oedipus.
we rid ourselves of both Oedipus and Tantalus, we get Sisyphus.
we give up.
we still want Dionysus, but we will settle for Ariadne.

01.28.2012


not that

even Nero's fiddle is on fire!
we dismiss it as progress and carry on.

01.28.2012

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