BP :: PJ67

#This is some bad poetry from a journal that has a pink bandana cover. It starts with a
#newspapaer clipping dated June 2, 1989

Attention
DEAR
(blank):

How dare you! I seriously doubt that you would recognize poetry if it came up and biteyou. Tose poems you so wrongly described not only took me years to write, but represent serious thought! I had hoped that you would expend at least some thought on your comments. I see you now: snickering at this, laughing, and gawfaing from your leather chair, I know you and I also heard that click in your office (you know the one you always imagine befor eyou go to sleep – clicking beside your left temple). I heard it, too. Nice knowing you.
NICE
David Schwarm

What are they
thinking walking around in
a drunk costume
party with loaded guns.

The tradition of oddity – the
appeal of the unusual – is
anti-educational for it
challanges the extent of th
knowable, the bounds of
the reasonable, the challanges
rather then explicates –
Investigative poetry must focus on the known
uncovering deeper layers of
perception rather then
attempting to reate new levels of experience. To
much is alredy really impact the
senses for the
creation of metaphysical
fictive poetyr to have any
value – make it new
thee is little else to say
and tin the process
give everyone what they
really think they want
i.e., more – not the unusual
the odd the unknown
rather more of what
they already have in a
new method.

We need non-sterile heros.