From pulp horror to avant garde poetics, writing that hits hard by Jedediah Smith

Whose Poem Is This?

WCW in Spring and All period? Creeley making thought intersect with breath? Padgett’s Be Here Now objectivism? Coolidge in a whimsical mood?

the fact

of the 

matter

is how

can you

assure

you’re going

to be

out

on you

know

on your

way

to go

you

know

work

tomorrow

age age

wasn’t you

know the

idea

that I’m

too

old

 Naw, it’s our multi-talented Prez reassuring us that aphasia is not a threat. Joe Biden, President of the United States of America, is rapidly descending into senility and dementia. Biden mumbles, stumbles, and fumbles his way through the most important single occupation on planet earth. Yet his administration refuses to acknowledge what we all see.