BE ADVISED: tis an oddity, being a First Follower..
by nat-lipstadt
that so many of my essays,
inspired and devoted to you,
Mel says I’m an OCD people pleezer,
that is probably so,
but I must attend to this finger stroking pov,
it’s much more than that,
in so many poems, so many comments,
you simply hand me a provocation,
a holy invocation, a phrase that fazes,
words that strike me into instant dazes,
cut and pasted, as an entitled commission,
worthy of replication praise, a “come to hither”
reposting,
Nothing more glorious than my stolen breath,
when a new poet sends me signal of appreciation,
and I, oft accorded the distinction honor of being a
“First Follower”
perhaps I’ve noted this interchange transactional before,
after 2200 poem+a scattered misnomerd odd 1000+ moreover,
and this advanced aged mainframe failing computer,
oft forget with callous repetition; as more brain cells
daily dying,
than can hope to ever replace…dying, and forming a tree’s inner circle…
so let me say it again:
anything you write,
whether poem or profile,
comment, short or vociferous,
is fair game for my 24/7/365
attention span and oft just
squirreled away for wildcat drilling
exploration when the fear + love
in me
subsides…
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