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To Refuse Companions
You eat well and transcribe in place of dictation
You brush quickly in the morning
You only slander in your self defense
You manufacture praise
You can only dream of dreaming in a workshop
You get up, shower, and check your messages
You upload and download solitude
You network, correspond, advance
You write preening, agreeable statements
You excuse difficulty as aberrant
You wash come off quickly
You cut and paste
You transgress till transgress transgresses
You drink bottled water and monitor headlines
You check your money and messages
In sorrow you’re submissive, in catastrophe a fascist
You risk in measured amounts
You build lives around poetry which hem it in
You think precisely what you’ve read
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Comments
weirdelf
Mon, 2018-07-09 09:36
Harsh!
Very unlike you.
who is it an attack on?
cheers,
Jess
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chevyvent
Tue, 2018-07-10 10:48
Very good words
Very good words you have here in this piece really good in this reflective piece. You have engaged on rich words filter through these words. To make you think intense words. You hit the head on the nail in this piece really good writing.
Mario Vitale
weirdelf
Wed, 2018-07-11 04:09
Mario, you are the very epitome
of vacuous disingenuous sycophancy.
cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry