To the editor who instructed me to cut my last stanza

 

When my UTF code points are
racing full throttle
I don’t even hear your dominatrix
infixes as I pass by
And when my booster
rocket has jitterbugged me into the
highest strata
I don’t stop, I tell you, till
I’m biting
moondust

And maybe even a nebula boasting
a candy cane fellowshipDon’t tell me I’m
too tiny to
crash soundwave symposia

too attenuated to
blockade Philistine
actuarials
I accost other people with my tannaitic
insights ambassadorial
I don’t stop, I tell
you, till conspiracy
theorist ziggurats crumble
And there are dancers
I gently
unwrap under the strobe lights

Andy Oram
January 16, 2023

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