Thesis 57
topic o speech cormorant under construction
no such pronoun as economic suction
surplus books some of the gulp and content defying desire
Nothing in "Thesis 57" settles into a plain statement, and that seems to be the point. The poem works by collision: "topic o speech" looks like a slip of the keyboard, a cormorant (a bird that dives and swallows) appears from nowhere, and the whole thing is labeled "under construction." Language…
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