On the Notion of
Self Promotion:
Poems are Not Self.
Rather, perceptions and loss
desire and dross
Whirled in the vortex
of the mind’s mouth
Erotic wrestle of
words and wordlessness(Sultry!)
Ventriloquism
a boxing match
of beings and voices
sharpened by a whiff of the abyss
The self.
How very small.
The poem, how other.