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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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