I really appreciate your response, mjay. When I posted the poem, even
after spending considerable time on revisions, there was still a certain
amount of doubt in my mind whether the two stanzas worked together.
Especially since the first stanza consists largely of my descriptive
analysis of Paik's 1972 silent "Cinema Metaphysique" while the second
stanza reorders Paik's best lines from Jud Yalkut's 1995 "Elec-
tronic Super Highway". I can't remember when last I linked such different
approaches, but finally I decided they were better together than as two
separate snaps, especially with the addition of the prose afterword. Barry
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