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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 […]

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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Thirteen Ways of Blogging About a Poem

Whenever anybody mentions Wallace Stevens, I’m tempted to bring this up. So, this time I’m giving in to temptation. Slightly edited from the original version from four years ago, but I still like it. Hope you do, too. I Among twenty glowing iPads, The only moving things Were the hands of the bloggers. II I […]

Whenever anybody mentions Wallace Stevens, I’m tempted to bring this up. So, this time I’m giving in to temptation.

Slightly edited from the original version from four years ago, but I still like it. Hope you do, too.

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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