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Now reading
Poetics
Pyongyang, if you’ll please, STOP
appearing
in the poem
like this—
unannounced
*
In writing to your
Pomomomo
(that special critical topos
between an ideolophe fahtha’
and a para-juridical muhtha’ )
This-side-of-the-Hudson
Psycho-Acoustics
Jangling—
Claim you
what?
“We call it dead in the wa wa
don’ mean jacky bits”
“Pyongyang”
*
But it does...
as an In Walk Bud
flips the whooole session
on its head
lexicals
in range
clash
and dash out
patch 14ths
off the scale
to perfect fifths
effects
REACT
rather more differently
than before
with
“Pyongyang”
in there
*
And “Quetzalcoatl”
Lands on
“Tarragon”
jangling it?
If that’s where the Nitro’s stored, in
“Tarragon”
bird’s already been
blown off
feathers
falling
field’s been
re-charged
*
And “Thatcher?” as guest
jaw-harp
soloist?
The E.U.’s
formative
contradictions
unresolved?
some kill in that cut—
you got the mic, pomomomo
make a ho’ youself
and Maggy
and us