seen in storysaw i
o Chesterman Beachaways :
some space-agèd CAWdger
in slumpsack need of a CAWs
aperch on a beach log
head in hand like some
CAWperplate chump
presumably CAWnsolidating some
flagmope CAWnstitutional collapse . . .
is snapwing CAWnfronted in the sun
by one iridescent adolescent
halfpint cockeye trickster lickspit CAWn artist
what greedy wings pickpock the sky
what ’chinegun needlebeak
chides the CAWllared citizen thus:
“Hey baby, what-evar may > be the new black,
but when what-evar goes > down for the count
it’s the old black, me and my
murderful CAWmunity
of dramaqueen jumpstrut lunchsteal CAWmpadres
still be blackbelly here, laughing—
“here till the CAWs come home—
“here with our heiroglyph antic
and our cryptical testament
ever CAWnfounding the dictates
of your dreary sourboy CAWnspiracy
to suck the juice
from a CAWsmos fulleye bubblesmash
“what fairly flapwings
to be crowed!”
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by greg blanchette, 2010
A note on formatting: Normal HTML lays waste to the indents and spacing in a heavily formatted poem like this one. I tried using (the HTML non-breaking space) to bump the lines over, but WordPress strips out all leading spaces. I finally figured out that using the <pre> (preformatted) tag preserves all spaces — at the expense of reverting to a fixed-width Courier font. Maybe i’ll figure that out too some day….
Ah, wait: as usual, all is answered in the FAQ, if only one be bothered to read them. Here’s the WordPress help on Writing and formatting poetry.
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