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 maples 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