4. A-LITERATE
an address on slanguage

(as Toronto-hatted McLuhan exhorts his minions to verses)

just as my own particular
versus marks irk
all art for sum, either
our maple’s gone
baltic, or tinned-tupped
beneath us

however, nor am I
quality; my effect
may be less

in other words: is history
improvement?

and does complementary
variance to suckling-self
period, or record (aside, ghoulish
triumph) living on
into an a-wry
and in our ghastly