Monday, August 2, 2010

Murderers Row

We barter in cliche

for convenience.

Language like junk food

recycled into the lines

of a billion bad poems,

ten-thousand novels &

hundreds of short

stories.

They drip across the page

besmirching it with

every letter

and infecting

every eye that

dares lay upon it.

Where is the cure for

this modern malady?

Not in these words, not

in these lines. Somewhere

we've never been to, will never

live to see.

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