Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The Last Literary Magazine I Will Ever Buy - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

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The Last Literary Magazine I Will Ever Buy

 

A weighty enough tome for fourteen dollars

Guest-edited by a famous visiting poet

For that much money there should be more hollers

But it’s mostly free verse, wouldn’t ya know it

 

Self-pitying free verse (oh, how I have suffered)

First-person pronouns shattered and scattered about

From each other with white space well buffered

Each polemic a sustained, censorious pout

 

The thesis of each yelp in this literary gong?

All that we say and do and think is wrong

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