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Ira Lightman: Pessimism

Ira Lightman

Ira Lightman

Ira Lightman makes public art with text. He has a book of double-column poems DUETCETERA (Shearsman 2009) which he often performs as duets on his YouTube channel. He has a new book of early poems forthcoming from Red Squirrel press in 2011. He spends a lot of time on Facebook.

Pessimism

Twice upon
a future
time
who's forebodey
we may well
again
be giants
with a freeze-dried
barracuda
for a
draught-excluder
in the then when
wind sucks smell
till it & cold
are gone,
science
now made old
but not the toady
to rhyme
will have died?

 

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