Telephone Game

I've just cracked open
John Ashbery's Chinese Whispers
An incredible collection of poetry
So steady, lyrical, talks like
people I know and love
and uses tons of new, exacting vocabulary
He's created his own idiom
through language beats
strung together to make his
own rhythm of
specific non sequitur language
Some of the pieces instigate your
feeling, and side step knowing, and thinking



© Donald Grube, 2010