"To bring the poem into the world / is to bring the world into the poem."

Monday, November 14, 2011

ED BAKER

WHAT IS (PART OF) YOUR GREAT RECESSION EXPERIENCE?

part of my "great recession" experience is in regards to that rather long 1980's recession .. I bought $10,000 worth of AT&T (before the split-up), WGL, Mobil Oil (before the merger), Squibb, Pan Am (my only "turkey") & one share of Berkshire Hathaway ,... now?

after re-investing all dividends, distributions and PAYING the taxes on the cap gains I am one of the very few Multi-Gazillionaire Minor American Poets !


"My “zing” will cost you, big time, Charlie!", art by Ed Baker



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HOW HAS THE GREAT RECESSION AFFECTED YOUR POETRY?

which recession goes with which poem ? I just don't know. I'm still trying to figure out what the hell Language Poetry is !


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PLEASE SHARE A POEM(S) ADDRESSING YOUR GREAT RECESSION EXPERIENCE:

money money money        money money        money      mon
neu money money money money        money-money
Money Honey?      money money money money money mo
money.      "All you think about is ..... SEX !"

now? off to the grocery to buy some "day old" bread (at 1/2 price)
to use for Turkey Stiffing... I already got the turkey       at a sale Fifty-Eight cents a pound.

only need 5 days to thaw it out... I got 10 until T-Day. and you know that
a frozen turkey is fresher than a fresh turkey. frozen turkeys are frozen within 5 hours of slaughter
where as the "fresh" birds by the time they get to the grocer are at least 3 weeks old !

actually, at any price, next to hamburger turkeys are the worst garbage one can eat in or out of

              "Poets on/In The Great Recessional Crowd"


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ABOUT THE POET:

Ed Baker's got "3,221 books published & not one via a 'vanity press'. most recent: She Intrudes (Lillieput, et al), Stone Girl E-pic, (and forthcoming in Sunfish) nearly 1/2 of ARS POETIC HER"




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