Originally published in Tablet Arts & Letters for National Poetry Month
How long Oh Lord
until we reopen the poem?
For too long language
has suspended us
in the name of public health
For what?
To save the syntacto-compromised
from auto-deletion
while the rest of us die miserably
for lack of what is found there?
Yours,
Potemkin
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