Touchscreen
this rose on an app is art
picture by picture without intermission I almost see
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 29 March 1664.
Dave Bonta
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this rose on an app is art
picture by picture without intermission I almost see
Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Tuesday 29 March 1664.
Dave Bonta's "Touchscreen" is a tiny poem about looking at a flower without really being near it. The speaker finds a rose on an app and calls it art, but the statement feels a little uncertain, as if they're trying it out rather than fully believing it. The second stanza deepens that doubt.
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