This is in response to Lorraine's invitation to talk about the new narrative. And not as a reaction to language poetry.
I don't know enough about language poetry to react to it. I only react to myself.
But I am narratively-driven. Not lyric-driven or experiment-driven, although I can incorporate those elements into my poems. In daytime, I am a lawyer, and so I am a word-fascist. I am about using words to persuade, command, to tell.
I don't want to "derange your senses." I want to fucking take them over.
I want to tell you the stories that I am always telling myself. And I want you to believe them. I want to tell them in such a way that you don't even realize you're being told. I want to be a psy-ops story machine.
I'll tell stories in pieces. Backwards. I'll leave out the ending. Or the middle. You'll figure it out. It was what you were born to do. It's all you do.
I'll sew in little pieces that will connect off of other pieces, I'll circle back; I'll make echoes that could be meaning, that evolve from nothing into something.
So let's be human. Let's edit one another's minds. I'll start.
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