Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Perched on this metal tripod
silent as an uninspired sibyl
I watch a living body (male,
white, 56) draped in skyblue
After you’ve become a human drum
to let high frequency thrumming
create magnetic pictures of your
brain, you examine the evidence,
Audible — About heart is more colloquial, that not your line!, keep your hearts in line, to say & less done, rave on, to do & more, distinctively all drums
Could Darwin instruct those turtles? Pixilated pin-dick tax
taste—comforting mannikins
atmosphere, he also enjoys an occasional highball: wanna see my
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Bananas are an example.
Moonlight makes the puddle’s meniscus glisten.
Sounds that came into the world in my lifetime
already sound old-fangled: dial-up modems,
the implosion of a television tube
—But who reads that shit? About as true to life as a
velvet grape.
—I think he judges poetry with his dick. And poets, too.