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Michael Ceraolo
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Poetic Manifesto (3)
In interview after interview today’s poets
talk of their “engagement with language”,
confusing the tool for the expression with expression itself.
Put another way, engagement with your tool is masturbation.
Try engagement with the world, and then
using the tools to express that engagement.
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Essay on a News Report (55)
Fulfilling licensing requirements
by reading five minutes of news a day,
largely gleaned by reading the paper,
the radio reader reported,
with an air of actual discovery,
that the main issues in a current labor dispute
were wages and benefits
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Essay on a News Report (53)
The article was an all-too-typical example
of an all-too-prevalent point of view
A man-made monstrosity had been torn down,
and grasses, wildflowers, and wildlife
had gradually reclaimed the area
The article emphasised there was nothing there
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