Poem for Display in an Inaccessible Location

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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

Dave Bonta (bio) crowd-sources his problems by following his gut, which he shares with 100 trillion of his closest microbial friends — a close-knit, symbiotic community comprising several thousand species of bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. In a similarly collaborative fashion, all of Dave’s writing is available for reuse and creative remix under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. For attribution in printed material, his name (Dave Bonta) will suffice, but for web use, please link back to the original. Contact him for permission to waive the “share alike” provision (e.g. for use in a conventionally copyrighted work).

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6 Comments


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

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

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

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