Wednesday, January 8, 2014

f. off to the editors of poetry zines

As I re-read the entry I just posted, I see my use of archaic or less popular words---products
of an education that required my parents to make sacrifices.--An education that improved me,
but not in ways that capitalist bosses like.


And I think of the so-condescending remarks of editors who don't like the words more
likely used by the more educated, preferring a more vulgar style.


And I know that this is just a prejudice against me.  Sometimes you've got to get past
the surface form, or swallow it whole, before you can taste the sweet behind the skin.



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