BP :: PJ69

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

Silence Part II
for the teachers

Poetry is not defined
by control of line
or right margin justification
they style has nothing
to do with it
nor does form
And you know it.

qualitative judgements
rise from diction
And onlyl aesthetic
discretion will
Add value to any communication.

The lesson of Bruce
Springsteen is right
there
so is whitman but
name dropping even stylistically
is not poetry

Say it don’t spray it
What more need to be said
Spread it?

there’s enough of that
kind of aid going
around already.

Into the streets
we are born to run
There is no temptation
only recognition
Dactylic epigrams resounding
with inner thought.

right t a
known h l
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Forever
see the grid!