Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Tuesday poem #25 : nathan dueck : APOSTROPHE: O READER



   O reader of style, I’ll digest typeset,
    ’ll dine  n punct ati n,  r pine f r
   ink     drop    let’s  post  phe,


   O reader of stylo - you'll congest print --
   you'll st-r up -ppet-tes - -r hung-r for
   pin ---- in---pret-tion -- --phen -


   O reader of stylus: We’ll egest script.
   We'll urge re.gurg.i.ta.tion; or yearn fr.
   ver . . . drop . . . : per.


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                          ,
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                     -                      --


            -     -    -    - -      -
       ----   ---    -     -- --     -


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                .    . .  .    ;            .
       . . .      . . . :    .


Forced to relinquish the manual typewriter, nathan dueck turned to Courier New in a fit of nostalgia. His previous book, king’s(mère), interprets Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King’s biography as prose poetry. He has placed poems in Canadian Literature, CV2, & Rampike. “Apostrophe: O Reader” is from he’ll, a book forthcoming from Pedlar Press (Fall 2014).

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

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