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Mary McCray
Poems
Apr 2015
30 Poems About Suffering: Hindsight Bias
(NaPoWriMo Challenge: April 19, 2015)
Sometimes called the “I-knew-it-all-along” effect, the tendency to see past events as being predictable at the time those events happened.
Today—no question what we would talk about:
L’entrée de Barry Manilow, or as the French say,
Faire son coming out, as if homosexualité
was Americain. You know, like the French
used to say making love in the English way
while the English were saying making love
in the French way. Meanwhile my own closet
of 33 rpms and fan-club letters and all those
barroom assertions. Is he? Isn’t he?
What is the nature of his love? So benevolent
to his fans, surprising them at the piano
of their houses, the spotlight of polite
amid rock and roll infamy. This hindsight
bias is tricky: "At the time." Since when?
Every moment to the now we speak of it.
The
was
that made the
is
to be: we will argue this
to our thrones. Like literary ironies of thigh master,
controversial poet of the bedroom farce,
Krissy Snow and her gentle flurry of confession.
Zaftig fans with their quinquagenarian chest pains.
Fantasy is always predictable. It never was.
They are screaming like Beatlemaniacs.
The happy hour question left for us now:
What is the nature of their love?
Huff Post reported that Barry Manilow was outed yesterday by his friend Suzanne Somers.
#napowrimo
#napowrimo2015bd
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