(but who
grants absolution for sins that never were committed? – natalie merchant)
i
am reading steve richmond’s “santa monica poems”
inspired
i google “the generation of poets after the beatniks”
but
every suggestion was about the beat generation
the
generation after:
bukowski
richmond
(who was called the american rimbaud)
thought
the niks were arrogant
you
know the saying,
“the
more you eat the more you shit”
bukowski
and richmond were underground
and
academia forced on us the poets after the niks
who
dealt with cultural injustices
racism,
poverty
this
made them relevant
i’m
still trying to find
other
poets since the niks
confessing
my ignorance
but
the two aforementioned names
have
been all i can find
and
i only discovered both
in
the past few years
well
after i started walking
the
dark streets of decay
where
the
only way to eke out existence
in
an existential environment
is
to erase existentialism from your mind
because
existentialist still think
there
is something to find
unable
to define in-congruency
in
their dance of denial
there’s
no such thing as anything
other
than what others need you to be
to
make their thing a possibility
don’t
confine within any line
eat
where you want to dine
even
if it makes your shit unrefined
because
art doesn’t ache for absolution
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