AS/IS 2

"...we are continually assaulted by unending cycles of woes and degradation. Politics has been downgraded to war in its very lowest form, and we cannot talk of the political field without wincing with disgust. The political field has become a veritable theatre of disaster and cannot be spoken of without embarrassment...In a situation where a long established tribal culture is under assault from colonialism, new beings, discourses and commodities emerge from the transitional phase. And this transitional phase, with all its swift and sudden cultural reversals and rapid upturning of established tables of values, creates room for the most pronounced kind of opportunism, a situation where anything goes."

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Check out my Interview with Crag Hill.

my most recent poem was an e-lipogram, double sestina in "rime" (number-rhyme).
instead of twelve stanzas of twelve lines each, i divided it into nine poems of sixteen, in 8-syllable lines & four-line stanzas.

(i also made one of the sub-poems a secret ghazal.)

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Fly in a Zeppelin.

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