readings and dis-

-appointment. today @ 12:15 iona college. poets including john b. lee, mary-anne mulhern, etc etc. the trouble with includes infuriating. we watched as poetry died multiple deaths at the hands of a coterie of resonant self-congratulation. like tuning forks, with no audible tone except among themselves. it is to convey a deadness of language, a draining of the natural vitality of words which lives in the oft repeated maxim and the redundant, the unaltered multiple iteration of the same. almost they could fit snugly under one name, combine and save the world their multiple. at least instead inspire reactionary response. form a new poetry by articulating the lack.

hence appointment. listen and be aghast, but say instead to drown to out.