several thoughts

           
                                   
                                   
Even if one does not favor it, it appears that  
the ideas of American Hybrid and of hybridity   
have, by consensus, won the day.  As a maker  
of poems and poem-like artifacts, definitely  
I am, and long have been, a hybrid; yet, I am   
not comfortable with that term.  [ Have you   
ever read any thing made by that hybrid slut,
baj salchert? ]  I would rather be known as a
u-f-o (utterly-futile-oddity) poet.  Notice:
I used "a" before "u-f-o" because the letter
"u" sounds like "you".  I put the "." outside
the second quotation mark for "you" because  
the "." represents the end of the sentence.  
It has nothing to do with "you".               
                                         
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Regarding my love(?) for poetry and a list   
of 20 books that fostered said love, forget
it.  Yes, there are poets and poems I could
list; and, of course, books (anthologies   
mostly) were where I first encountered them.
Surveys and questionnaires make my skin itch.
                                             
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I have some issues with Google and Blogger;
and since help files and forums also make  
my skin itch, I am trying to figure out my  
own ways around those issues.  Unfortunately,
the new and improved Followers messed up the
look of the bottom of this blog, and there's
nothing I can do about it.  One example of a 
work-around is: latest post info.               
                                            
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If David Orr's article on poetic greatness  
was meant to arouse discussion among poets,
it was an inordinate success.               
                                            
                                             
                                              
                                          
                                           
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