Random Acts of Poetry Day October 7

Last week poets around the world participated online in 100,000 Poets for Peace. Today poets are putting out the call for Random Acts of Poetry. This is your chance to display your work in public. Leave a poem you wrote at your favorite diner. Stuff one in a book at a bookstore. Find an online forum. Find out more with the link to  Annette Aben’s blog below.

My contribution? I’d like to revisit a prose poem I posted a long time ago: Digital Distraction

They say he’s got the whole world in his hands but lately, it seems like he’s juggling a few too many priorities, if you ask me, which I know you’re not. I mean, really, you’re not even paying attention, you’re texting everyone but me on your brand new, next-generation iPhone and snickering and forwarding me pics you think I like, like this orb that could be a vagina giving birth to a crying bleeding orgasmic pop art spectacle laid out over a watch kind of like saying time’s getting away from us, our lives are getting away from us, this whole fucking world is getting away from us and whose fucking fault is it, I want to ask. But there really isn’t any point. Is there? Because you aren’t paying attention, you’re already off to another chain of texts and would have lost the thread of this thought long ago in cyberspace and never bothered to take the time to look at this drawing. Look at it damn it, when the text stops scrolling, and say, “wow, there’s another mind I could connect with here” instead of losing yourself in the solipsistic universe wrapped up at your fingertips on your nextgen phone.

(Image by Sergio Penya)

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