i hope that new design is just a hiccup

so i finally figured out why i am so reclusive
it was when the sharing thing on the boards
became a battle of possesiveness or maybe it was
when i realized that the possessiveness
was really not an aberation but standard operating
procedure, after seeing it pinch our asses, like,
a thousand different times. it was not even that the voices
sounded alike, it was that people got jealous of the resonances
they didn't like the harmonics, the pings, the spreading
into cliche and commonplace bon mots of certain authorship

i always liked the chorale implications of   group,
obviously, the way a writer  can take lead
for a while, then fade out and other soloists would
emerge, a jazz of poems, riffing off each other
like centaurs or peacock women. there's a mythological
creature that should be more popular.

i do not see that on fb. j's still doin his thing
but everyone wants to know etymology
did you write this, what is the author's name
who did the mpg, who owns the goddam copyright?


maybe i'm wrong. i should read more people.
that peadon woman is funny. good writers on there
some of them my friends. or
 it's the format. i don't like it. 
i'm so old skool. but it seems less about the word
than blog. more about self promotion
but maybe that's what poetry has always been about?

or not. author author. no, a poem is in the giving.
then it becomes the readers, the listener's. only then
does it take on new life, and grows in each new mind.
the author is not the point. the duende is.