Poem for Display in an Inaccessible Location

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Dave Bonta
This entry is part 9 of 15 in the series Public Poems

Second-hand poetry has
been linked to
the cancer
of unanswerable
questions. Even
if it’s safely
out of mind,
like a dessicated seed
or a leaf in darkness,
mouths with
no memory
can still turn
the blanks where
letters were
into seditious
little Os. So
thank you for
not reading.

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Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with one quadrillion of his closest microbial friends --- a tight-knit, symbiotic community comprising some 500 different species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa.
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6 Responses to Poem for Display in an Inaccessible Location

  1. lissa says:
    June 10, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    love the cleverness of this.

  2. Peter says:
    June 10, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    This ranks up there with Ishmael Reed’s “Beware: Do Not Read This Poem.” Poetry is so subversive. At least yours is.

  3. Lee's River says:
    June 11, 2008 at 7:03 am

    too late – seditious little O’s sprouting and spilling all over the place already.

  4. David Harmon says:
    June 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    Indeed, a primary goal of tyrants is to keep everyone in their “proper place”! Which is one reason they fear poets….

  5. Fred Garber says:
    June 11, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    This should be reported right away to the appropriate authorities.

  6. Dave says:
    June 12, 2008 at 11:51 am

    Thanks for the comments (if not for reading).