Wednesday, November 27, 2019

earth note 720


an editor years ago
after publishing a shitload of my poems
over a several year period
asked me to stop using
the earth note numbering method
     for poem titles
implying that i seem to have found
a lazy way of titling
     yeah
     there's an element of truth there

but i've never been a fan
of orthodoxy
nor of conforming
to any editor-self-inflating-wordplay
     puffery makes poor poetry

so let that stand as my
     au revoir

--- e b bortz

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