Greg Masters

from Alphaville Revisited

Wrong World

I've been working on a
unified theory
to make sense of my
uncertain perspective
in a universe 14.8 billion
years old, to concatenate
the vectors.
You know: Alonso hits
a ball to the right side,
the grinding of stone
down in the air shaft,
the moment of this pen
on paper making
thoughts tangible.

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Fishing Line

Fishing line.
Amazing, right?

*

Tomorrow's headlines today

Poet Topples Trump
Earth Renamed Rolling Stones

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For those with intention but little talent

Who am I to judge?
Get up on that stage.
Leave me out of it.

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I used to recant
now I decant

Greg Masters has issued eight books from his imprint Crony Books, most recently Collaborations, a collection of poems and plays written with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Michael Scholnick, and Ted Berrigan among several other East Village comrades.