Bad Day Bad
Day Place
your bets
now Place
your bad
day any
way but
here now
the machine
say bad
as any day
[I worked a casino the other day for The Edmonton Poetry Festival; snapped this down late in the day, looking out over the grungy room, the customers caught up in whatever till they came to the till to turn in their chips.]
Douglas Barbour
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The postliterate sensibility is offended by anything that isn’t television, views with suspicion the compound sentence, the subordinate clause, words of more than three syllables. The home and studio audiences become accustomed to hearing voices swept clean of improvised literary devices, downsized into data points, degraded into industrial-waste product.
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