Infinite Monkey Poetry                  

Mkemqpc   mw cnppxn  swawv

Amwop mcfw wzce; nsu s siwown
Tbsiwb dj lin, sidmem   eie
 
Snwoqm wis qjwr kji nrow
Cliwn bf siqnl—ida siwn ewi,
Lnwisnak djd epobq dmws
 
Ajwown sonqw ocb       as     incaowz,
Snc aon       ci anwo       vwao wanovtwb
There is nothing either good or bad,
But thinking makes it so

 

 

Clarity Kills        

good art by devaluing the difficulty
needed to appreciate the praxis of prosody
in a quotationist, citationist, double-coded,
mannered, oblique, post-modern world.
 
Lucidity is not for literary luminaries
but for literary losers who can
only express themselves in ways
to be understood which is
 
BORING
BORING
BORING
it’s raining
it’s pouring
BORING
BORING
BORING
 
Mediate
          obfuscate
equivocate
          expostulate
vitiate
          germinate
amalgamate
          attenuate
but
 
don’t prate prose
whose                   meanings
are     too              readily
dis                                  closed

 

 

 
Martin H. Levinson is a member of the Authors Guild, National Book Critics Circle, and the book review editor for ETC: A Review of General Semantics. He has published 8 books and numerous articles. His poems have appeared in The Potomac Review, BRICKRhetoric, Occupoetry, Specter Magazine, First Literary Review East, WestWard Quarterly, Poets and War, The Prompt Literary Magazine, Boston Poetry Magazine, The Broken Plate, Literary Mama, Third Wednesday, Freshet, Musings, Message in a Bottle, Still Crazy, Mindset Poetry, and other publications. He holds a PhD from NYU and lives in Forest Hills, New York.