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A Short Poem Extends Its Arms All Over the Net
Dateline: 4/2/97
Any poem can be a nexus made of words. . . It takes ideas, images, metaphors, experiences in, and threads them back outwards in unexpected directions. Gary Mex Glazner, editor of the e-magazine Headless Buddha, has made this manifest in his treatment of Whitman McGowan's short poem:
CREDIT SLAVE
The man who installed systems
For automatic credit card purchases
Was himself a credit slave. . .
He'd whip out his dirty Visa card
With a tortured look on his face
Changing to joy, and, flash, back again. . .
reprinted with permission from:
Headless Buddha
"First Thought--Third Thought. E Po for the late 20th century."
Gary Glazner, Editor/Webmaster
"Credit Slave" is from Big Petits Fours
by Whitman McGowan on Viridiana
Big Petits Fours is out of print, but you can order Whitman's new collection, Contents May Have Shifted, from:
Viridiana
P.O. Box 471493
San Francisco, CA 94147-1493
margwhit@ix.netcom.com
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