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serious, workmanlike poetry that’s “they” telling me I oughta be a being, doing, mesmerizing my soul mantra, honoring my guiding light, focusing on Ars Poetica, first principles yada yada yada; put aside, wit, wisdom, the social & the philo-sophical, write of beauty, of nature, become a love devotee, un passionné! my reply? yada yada yada and I ask the universe, What will become of the backward poem? the one that twists your head full around, leaves you breathlessly gasping for oxy-regeneration, your eyes, a failure to focus, the body shakes rattles and rolls, a full mirrored examination reveals, an exorcised head, turned 360 around, backwardation,** the price of a poem is far greater today, now, than in one year, today is the very first Day of Primacy it’s nearing 7:00am, anthem time, star spangled bannering of another morning, a soulful full~inquiry, a tribunal of supreme~beings discovering probing - needy for knowing, de-of-man-ding: Do You Know Where Your (new) Poem Is? what defines you, decides you, recreates you, each daily, a newish you-ish, a face that will exist for but twenty four, gone thereafter, no more, a new meaning for a sunrising beginning, an outlook for the uprising month of Avril! this my soul examination, graded only by a Pass/Fail sliding greased continuum, do you even cognize what I am asking, tasking you to do? yada yada yada wholly insufficient, holy water maybe, whatever it takes to tear oneself wide open, and write a new poem, a new justification, giveaway your latest possession, when you look backwards in dissatisfaction your Postbiotic guts screaming for a makeover, how will you reply, redeploy, speak with a singular finality? Here, Here is my new poem this day, backwardly now front facing, my soul to keep, my blood to re~anew the old sinews of my mind, a rousing defense of I am, and this is my proof! of existence. now, come kiss me. alas, alack, too few of you will read, comprehend and begin again… 7:00am Tuesday a Ki tov Twice Tuesday! Martius 31 2026 <nml>
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Mar 30
Mar 30, 2026 at 2:38 PM UTC
nat-lipstadt
What will become of the backward poem?
serious, workmanlike poetry that’s “they” telling me I oughta be a being, doing, mesmerizing my soul mantra, honoring my guiding light, focusing on Ars Poetica, first principles yada yada yada; put aside, wit, wisdom, the social & the philo-sophical, write of beauty, of nature, become a love devotee, un passionné! my reply? yada yada yada and I ask the universe, What will become of the backward poem? the one that twists your head full around, leaves you breathlessly gasping for oxy-regeneration, your eyes, a failure to focus, the body shakes rattles and rolls, a full mirrored examination reveals, an exorcised head, turned 360 around, backwardation,** the price of a poem is far greater today, now, than in one year, today is the very first Day of Primacy it’s nearing 7:00am, anthem time, star spangled bannering of another morning, a soulful full~inquiry, a tribunal of supreme~beings discovering probing - needy for knowing, de-of-man-ding: Do You Know Where Your (new) Poem Is? what defines you, decides you, recreates you, each daily, a newish you-ish, a face that will exist for but twenty four, gone thereafter, no more, a new meaning for a sunrising beginning, an outlook for the uprising month of Avril! this my soul examination, graded only by a Pass/Fail sliding greased continuum, do you even cognize what I am asking, tasking you to do? yada yada yada wholly insufficient, holy water maybe, whatever it takes to tear oneself wide open, and write a new poem, a new justification, giveaway your latest possession, when you look backwards in dissatisfaction your Postbiotic guts screaming for a makeover, how will you reply, redeploy, speak with a singular finality? Here, Here is my new poem this day, backwardly now front facing, my soul to keep, my blood to re~anew the old sinews of my mind, a rousing defense of I am, and this is my proof! of existence. now, come kiss me. alas, alack, too few of you will read, comprehend and begin again… 7:00am Tuesday a Ki tov Twice Tuesday! Martius 31 2026 <nml>
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