SATIRICAL

SATIRICAL

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Sorry, Eustace Tilley! But when it came to satirizing, the New Yorker turned out to be my favorite thing. This would be about 1990. Remember those poems you could read three times and still not get? The language so thin and distant, you knew somebody had died? Many of my reactions were rash and perhaps childish. But there's one that seems to me elegant, a fine example of what might be called a concept poem. I daresay a Frenchman or a Japanese, people who had never heard of the New Yorker, would feel that now they know it well:

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murmur murmur murmur, murmur
murmur murmur reminisce, murmur
murmur murmur, murmur preen sigh,

murmur murmur digress murmur?
oh, sermonize—murmur murmur!
murmur murmur quiver murmur.

murmur murmur murmur pose, wink!
murmur murmur subside: murmur
murmur conceal murmur; murmur

murmur murmur emote murmur.
suppose! murmur mumble, mumble
murmur, alas, murmur murmur.

pretend? murmur fade lull murmur
murmur murmur sadden....murmur
murmur whisper, murmur murmur?

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