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#nakedlights — I love finding
#foundpoetry, like the poetry of everyday things. ‘Found poetry’ is a genre of poetry dedicated to sharing accidental poems, found in situ, of otherwise lost, misplaced, unknown, unsung, or unintentional poets and poems. It’s where a poem is discovered unexpectedly, like a coin in a pocket of freshly washed jeans. This can be in the remnants of a half-torn stickers and the mishmashed archives of tour posters that garder a light pole, or in bathroom graffitis, or in the happenstance of a crumpled newspaper sheet read face forward—in anything really. My favorite found poetry is in following the little rivers of spaces that flow down a book page, and seeing what words my favorite streams happen to land on. Some people like it when the spaces on pages (they’re actually called rivers, that really is the name for them) are strutted and blocked—some like them abstract and fiesty like cocktail hour jazz. I like when they flow clean and sadly down a page, like raindrops down a car window on a cold day in Sweden; somewhere that they wear good sweaters. I love being sad and dramatic on those days; I guess that’s why I fit poetry in the mix there. Anyhow, hi. This is the poem: No smoking. No naked lights. Switch off engine.
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