flash forward
to the first day
of an english literature class
in our
tenuous
future
a professor
discusses the syllabus
and delivers the
history of word creation
in fifty minutes,
less,
if he’s out of coffee
(*if your internal monologue
is balking
at my making the professor
in this poem male
stop reading now
this isn’t for you)
of the
bards
poets
writers
painters
artists all
defining this digital age
twill be said they
published into a fog
of ones and zeros
to indiscriminate masses
they will discuss not what was written
but what was lost to the medium
known simply
as
the masturbationalists
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“masturbationalists” …those who stir up with the hand. Or, further yet…those who defile through manipulation? Sort of your basic Neo-low-jism.
Indeed… Those who write without purpose for self pleasure, while harboring the deluded notion that the literary underground is the establishment.
CyberCatacombs: It won’t take 1500 years this time to finish the Basilica.