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Poetry reading of a different sort

Where kicking the legs out from under their chairs

Will win little applause.

This poem was very powerful, well crafted and I loved the section which read, "i've always been the, "lay back, baby

& pretend your feet hate each other!" type... Well Crafted ~ with a firm grasp on the mundane!

As I read of your heart felt feelings

I am called to mind to imagine

what it would be like

were we all of us in our way

to take such a slam by force

and force it to our wiley wills -

can you imagine such a thing?

no sewing circle, no pulled punches

a roomful of dangerous poets.

would only one of us emerge?

...and proud of it.

'they all look like i shot their homeless children'

and you are coming after them next. I want to be there for that.

Nothing like a little fuck, or should I say fuck-it poetry to brighten up my morning.

Read this at a reading. Open mic nights are not exactly meta reflective decorums. They need a verbal screwing now and then.

This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 38,000 poems.

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