August 31, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is teenagers.
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A number poem about the white-hot molten selves of seventeen
year olds:
Seventeen pounds heavy in the bass
Exactly ten feet from the danger sign.
Vandals had less chaos-lust than these
Ecstatic children of our mores and malls.
Now they tumble, burning, molten steel
To their molds like white-hot waterfalls,
Empty, plunging hearts too sheer to freeze
Each time the lights go on, the worlds align,
No wall of sound across one's ravaged face.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Teenagers
8/27: Thirteen
8/29: Fie on These Earthlings
8/30: Sixteen
8/31: Seventeen
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