Monday, August 7, 2023

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Content providers are providing content
for weekend do-it-yourselfers . . .
Why did you walk off the set? . . .
The troubling aftermath of parsing the logic
long listed drip-dried
up and out . . . into and out of the tropes
clutching the elusive, the untranslatable . . .
chopping and framing the sum of its parts
to evoke the essence of absence . . .
You're drowning in word soup and loving it . . .
backstroking to Nothing Compares 2 U
while down-time and emptiness haunt the backstory . . .
Wouldn't you rather smirk the passcode
reminiscing short stacks in the greasy spoon
of one of your past lives
when odysseyites stood on their heads
and busied themselves
assembling paraphernalia
for your next expedition
into a supermarket's labyrinthine aisles? . . .

Antonio Palmerini