Thirteen Ways of Blogging About a Poem
Don’t generally cross-post with my regular blog, but wasn’t sure where this belonged. Anyway, enjoy!
I
Among twenty glowing iPads,
The only moving things
Were the hands of the bloggers.
II
I was of three minds,
Like a post
On which there are three comments.
III
The blogger fisked in righteous rage.
It was a small part of the blogosphere.
IV
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and their blogroll
Are one.
V
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of invective
Or the beauty of innuendo,
A blogpost by Malkin
Or on Kausfiles.
VI
Bicycles filled the parking lot
With emission-free carbon.
The blog-confab attendees
Crossed it for a smoke.
The mood
Traced by the bloggers
An indecipherable cause.
VII
O pale men of Starbucks,
Why do you imagine Pulitzers?
Do you not see how your blog posts
Walked off with the readership
Of the main-stream media?
VIII
I wrote novels, stories,
A screenplay, even once a libretto;
But I know, too,
That my blogging has eclipsed
All else I wrote.
IX
When the blogger turned off his cell,
He felt teh suck
To be off-line all evening.
X
At the sight of bloggers
Typing in the green room,
Even the head of CNN
Would cry out sharply.
XI
He rode over to Capitol Hill
In a black limo.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
An email from his girlfriend
For commentspam.
XII
The cafe has wifi.
The patrons must be blogging.
XIII
It was nighttime at half-past noon.
He was blogging
And he was going to blog.
The blogger sat
In his comfy chair.
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