Wednesday 20 October 2021

Stream

Question 4: Can you write poems with a single [stream] of words one after another? All poetry is a single-stream of words. Even concrete poetry is single words juxtaposed. Single-stream is so available today we may gawk at a comma. Is that flotsam there for some reason, we ask, as the single-stream takes us inexorably, meanderingly, towards decidedly a delta. Abandonment of punctuation coincides with recurrent desire for natural speech. Even though poetry is very exactly not natural speech. The most natural sounding poetry is oft times the most contrived. It’s a conundrum. Go with the flow, fairly much. End.



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