What it is

June 2010: In a desperate attempt to stave off senility, the monkey began writing a poem a day. By summer's end he'd begun to run out of versified political rants and philosophical bloviations. Then he hit on the improbable idea of writing micro fiction in the form of Elizabethan sonnets. Eureka. The birth of the "Sonnets From Other Lives" series. Two hundred plus lives later, he's still at it.

Friday, July 16, 2010

7/16

the text:
beat poets

anthology?
or imperative sentence?

OK
the pretense & drunken absurdity
can sometimes border on twee
when viewed from the 21st century

still I'll
dig the black
garbed beret-ed
cliches
let them have their say-- a
scribbled middle finger
hurled
at a button down world
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  1. P. A .HofmannAugust 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM

    Reading "When I was cool" I sometimes pack around a hokey anthology called "Beat Poets" & snark @ the double meaning. Still I keep coming back to those guys.

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