Cleaving pessoa

Against Boredom

“Tedium is boredom
with other worlds”
—Fernando Pessoa,
The Book of Disquiet

Prose—bores me
discursiveness—depresses me
I need some surprise—some ad lib
in each & every—Line, my dear

maybe not—every Line
but at least—two out of three
call it what you want—call it maybe
magic realism—LangPo surrealism

many vast all-knowing—intelligentsia
have written about it—tres scholarly
madam perloff—bernstein & silliman
susan howe—in the Beinecke Library

tiptoeing thru—postmodern tulips
stein’s cubist roses—along with all
those red wheelbarrows—kitschy jars
in tacky tennessee—quotidian woods

poetry bores me—without spontaneity
busy miss cage—motherly mac low
the I chiNg—and weird permutations
doing miss pound—with pisa dice

most of POMO poetry—tres de rigueur
but what I need—is poetry flash
a little surprise—now & then
to add some life—to my soirees

horizontal—clickity-clack Lines
choo-choo cha-cha—train tracks
but also vertical—veridical is nice
adding a little spice—oriental express

Vertical surprise stanza #1

Prose discursiveness—

I need some surprise—

in each & every maybe

not but at least—call it

what you want—magic

realism many vast all-

knowing—have written

about it—madam perloff

susan howe tiptoeing

thru—stein’s cubist roses—

those red wheelbarrows—

in tacky tennessee—

poetry bores me—

busy miss cage—the

I chiNg—doing miss

pound—most of

POMO poetry—

but what I need—

a little surprise—

to add some life—

horizontal—

choo-choo

cha-cha—but

also vertical—

adding a

little spice…

Vertical surprise stanza #2

Prose bores me—

depresses me—

some ad lib—Line,

my dear—every

Line— two out

of three—

call it maybe—

LangPo

surrealism—

intelligentsia—

tres scholarly—

bernstein & silliman—

in the Beinecke

Library—

postmodern

tulips—along

with all—kitschy

jars—quotidian

woods—without

spontaneity—

and weird

permutations—

with pisa dice—

tres de rigueur—

is poetry flash—

now & then—

to my soirees—

clickity-clack

Lines—train

tracks—

veridical

is nice—

oriental

express…