once upon a time seamus heaney called for a becketttian poetics of cinematic language that opens trap doors & does doubletakes. i was thrilled by that call for beckettian poetics & wanted that for my own poetry. such a vivid caption for a postmodern poetry is thrilling. but rather i prefer for my own poetics is an antipoetry of radical simplicity. a duchampain poetics of everyday & found things & words. an ordinariness tasked against the complexities of our mad times. duchampian art is what the artist says it is. like placing a urinal on a pedestal. & signing it r. mutt. or using the language of texting, twitterings, email, tv, movies, & the ordinary speech of all of us. & do this with full knowledge that no one owns language, but the words belongs to all of us.
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