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Having read more than 4000 pages
of her published literature,
surely
functions as a substitute mother
to me
[and all her handmade readers]
BUT
I started reading the sequel to
approximately 48 hours ago,
and have read
approximately 48 words
That is,
all I did was "peek inside"
Maybe that was due
to the narrator's mother dying
before this reader had time
to light another cigaret
My substitute
"Mother Margaret"
is often referred to as
To which I say
dis topia or dat topia
—dis a way or dat a way—
kiss Joe Cornell
on Utopia Parkway
!!!
Hallelujah, Paulie Boy:
my soul is now cleansed
with one deliciously obscure
surrealist reference
+
a guarantee
that one week from today
I will have completed
my twentieth book
by the greatest living author
writing in
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Maybe you are reading THE TESTAMENTS at a snail's pace
ReplyDeletebecause of the opening line:
Only dead people are allowed to have statues
but I have been given one while still alive.
I am petrified."
I should be dressed in a cement tuxedo
Deleteand dropped from the Whitestone Bridge
if I dared to disagree with your comment
-Oliverio