This is a first draft.
Honest constructive criticism is very welcome.
Age of Information
What prose can compare to
“like a good neighbor?”
What verse would rhyme better
than “be a pepper too?”
If enjambment were potent then
the world is in reach
and I could become the man
of my diction
the man who could teach
a stronger depiction
lesser than weak
more fertile than planted
entirely fictive
in real fit of pique.
Like socialist heroes in red
white and gold,
arms like the Volga but
softer than sheath, a
scythe or a knife, what’s real
or depicted – a corner
for cutting of tenuous
truths, tomorrow for telling
but today for the mourner
or soldier, a captive
liar, cheater of words.
My commercial is mine
I advertise nothing,
verily find
from a tower I scoff
yet, I am dead air
when the TV is off.
(C)Scott Smithson, June 17, 2003, Seattle
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