Death Rattle

Poetry is dead… Again

Jay Sizemore

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Photo by Mehdi Sepehri on Unsplash

Death Rattle

The poets seem stuck
in the posture of a shrug
as the coroners huddle nearby
shuffling papers, smoking,
the cuffs of their white jackets
stained dark with blood
of this great prolonged autopsy.

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Jay Sizemore

Provocative truth teller, author of APNEA & Ignore the Dead. Cat dad. Dog dad. Husband. Currently working from Portland, Oregon. Learn more at: Jaysizemore.com.