This poem is taken from PN Review 258, Volume 47 Number 4, March - April 2021.
Order
Whereas love is a four-letter word
without cursive complication,
whereas love can roll over ungloved,
and is cloven and clover-leaved,
whereas love will fester in the
suprasternal notch of the beholden,
whereas love permits lust, and lust
perversion, and perversion pain,
whereas love poses a threat to the
sustainability of the sedulous line,
whereas love disrespects solity,
which is to say is rife, at play, abroad –
I issue the following Emergency Order.
All social contact requires strict use
of appropriate protective syntax.
Palatal implosives must not be voiced
...
without cursive complication,
whereas love can roll over ungloved,
and is cloven and clover-leaved,
whereas love will fester in the
suprasternal notch of the beholden,
whereas love permits lust, and lust
perversion, and perversion pain,
whereas love poses a threat to the
sustainability of the sedulous line,
whereas love disrespects solity,
which is to say is rife, at play, abroad –
I issue the following Emergency Order.
All social contact requires strict use
of appropriate protective syntax.
Palatal implosives must not be voiced
...
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