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Cutting Edge Journals
You have to be a member of the right club
to be published in these pages
not only to write unintelligibly but
with a culture-biased unintelligibleness
the kind of cryptic messaging written
on french fry cartons in verifiable
U.S. academic institutions where free speech
is still permitted despite the encroaching
tide of plankton-based sushi-sounding
diuretic seaweed, threatening to flood
the lower ground dormitories
Most of what you’re going to say
has been written before, haiku and owl shit
are out, suburban extemporaneity is in
as the water creeps higher, submerging
all but the most refined-air institutions you begin
to realize that even Colonel Sanders needed
an accompaniment of free-floating stanzas
A new way to restate some finger-licking
universal scrap of fried potato truth
© Johnmichael Simon
2008
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