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the show must go on still as gnashing teeth</p><p id="038a">Bare to grin their chagrin.</p><p id="32cf">Keep your hands behind the railings</p><p id="1d9f">It’s a gamble when you’re all in.</p><p id="d77b">These baskets aren’t about to weave themselves —</p><p id="077e">By the way, what’s the point again?</p><p id="e111">AWOL balls to the wall; fine featherless friend!</p><p id="7e98"><i>Originally published at <a href="https://www.obsidianeagle.com/2020/11/in-absentia.html">https://www.obsidianeagle.com</a>.</i></p><h2 id="2d01">Further Readings:</h2><div id="f367" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/hack-job-98a4cccf791f"> <div> <div> <h2>Hack Job</h2> <div><h3>Or how to butcher the written word by being absurd</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*lOJcTcafgXpc3gsm)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="f7b8" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/law-of-the-letter-a23f35936e5c"> <div> <div> <h2>Law of The Letter</h

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In Absentia

Absence in lieu of presence

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In Absentia

From the forthcoming, Future Sutras: A Decade of Anti-Poetry

What else is an Anti-Poem

Apart from a conspicuously absent

P O E T ?

Any other definition pales by comparison

And rapidly devolves into teleological complexity.

For it’s the absence of agency that gives such automatic writing

Its characteristic conjunction of internal monologue wed to external function.

Doesn’t rhyming just grind your gears? Yet we must continue despite dysfunction…

Consider it a vocational hazard or simply a byproduct

Of leaning into measured meter.

Half the time not even trying

Then suddenly it’s a three act play at local _______.

Jeer if you will but the show must go on still as gnashing teeth

Bare to grin their chagrin.

Keep your hands behind the railings

It’s a gamble when you’re all in.

These baskets aren’t about to weave themselves —

By the way, what’s the point again?

AWOL balls to the wall; fine featherless friend!

Originally published at https://www.obsidianeagle.com.

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~ ItzQuauhtli; Herald of Quetzalcoatl (Shutterstock image under licence)
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