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Method of Construction No.1

Connecticut West

People write about hating writing
lots of them do
do that

People go on so long writing
they ask the reader
why they do
do that

(keep reading)

And in the whole storm of it
the mighty whale at last
is alone and
(cliché by now)
the whale is pale
sans Ahab,

which is to say
if a tree falls in the forest
and nobody hears
doesn’t matter

because then,
the tree does not
exist.

Connecticut West has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Connecticut's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Connecticut's latest works:

an actual question for the very bad poetry staff

Submitted Oct 29th 2010, 15:18

Joner

Submitted Oct 1st 2010, 08:09

He Protesteth

Submitted Oct 1st 2010, 08:02