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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Post-Post-Modern Poetry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Post-post-modern poetry is about making observations<br>That aren't interrelated and pretending that they<br>Have some emotional significance or<br>Are ironic (or not—irony is slowly falling out of fashion) .<br>	We strip our verses of the ornate, <br>	Of the indulgence, the pretension, <br>	The figurative language, <br>Reading a string of thoughts as they appear to us<br>In that given moment, <br>	A moment which is taken from us<br>	As we receive it.<br>Grandma eats chocolate and sews my mother a doll<br>That my sister will play with.<br>	My dog is fourteen years old—<br>	I guess he'll die soon.<br>My dad works at Big Lots.<br>He loves his job, but my mom says he works too much.<br>	I was going to take another semester of community college, <br>	But my financial aid didn't clear because I've had my<br>Associate's degree for a year or so now—<br>	I just want to learn, you know? <br>	I don't want to do anything with my life, <br>Except maybe eat a little, sleep a little, <br>Play video games and watch movies, <br>	Read a book every week or so, <br>	Listen to as much music as Spotify will let me—<br>Hey it curbs the urge for me to pirate<br>The sounds I'd like to hear, <br>Even if I can't plug them into my car stereo.<br>	I mean, I want to have sex too, of course, <br>	And there's a lot of pretty girls, <br>	And I'm really confident, <br>	But I'm also nervous, <br>And small talk is pretty boring.<br>Did Yeats talk like this? <br>Would Shakespeare understand the poems we write today, <br>Or would he be like the kids in my high school English Lit classes—<br>The ones I took for fun, not the AP ones? <br>	I mean, I doubt he'd call himself a &quot;cholo&quot;—<br>Whatever that is—<br>Or reference the Latin Kings, but I'm sure he'd have some difficulty<br>Comprehending the language.<br>	A bad tomato is a bad tomato.<br>	You can no longer eat it.<br>	That sucks.<br>I just don't know about this.<br>Do you know about this? <br>I know a lot about a lot of things, <br>But that doesn't mean I know anything.<br>	This sounds like something I could write<br>	When I was twelve.<br>	Will it get me published? <br>	Will it get me a job? <br>	Will it get me money, <br>	So I can eat food with feeling guilty<br>	About using my debit card as a credit? <br>I don't feel guilty, <br>But I'm feeling as blue as agave, <br>Which isn't very blue now, <br>Is it? <br>	And I just don't know what I'm saying, <br>But help, by the Gods, pumpernickel orange rinds<br>Crumple on the sagging polyphone around your dog's neck<br>And the cats are cradling violins in their violet yaps, <br>	Mellowing the evening sky, <br>	And trimming the headlines<br>	That we never heard on the evening news.<br>I just don't understand.<br>I just don't.<br>Do you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Tim+Stensloff">Tim Stensloff</a><div class=q>
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That aren't interrelated and pretending that they
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Are ironic (or not—irony is slowly falling out of fashion) .
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