i am alt lit

41.7 :: ‘child of tree’ by matt margo

‘child of tree’ by matt margo // white sky ebooks, 2012

41.7

is there something to ‘hold’

is there something to ‘believe’

is there something to ‘love’

is there something to

//

thankfully bereft of popcultured spunk

but the phrases meannothing

//

can be ….whatstheword

‘weird/odd/”””experimental”””/image-macro-sensational

and still make sense

and still have ‘impact’

read all of this

abstraction does not necessarily equal distraction

let’s just

let’s just avoid

let’s just avoid the

let’s just avoid the wash

let’s just avoid the wash of

nothingness 

and every line is nothing specific

blank blank blank

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i am no one / i am alt lit / i am i am what you allow

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liked this poem ‘versimilitude (sp?)

cozy darfur yawns 

with ghana like 

a vendetta stood by me 

like from a plane film 

swimming 

like a boater 

i know what these couplets are/they are couplets/ i can understand, let’s do it

and do it again and do it some more and keep doing it, let’s go