Dear Postmodern Girlfriend

What a lovely
bunch of

French
terms.

What names.
What attic

simulacra, what
vapid lilt.

The knowing
jests, the Bloom

shibboleths,
such admirable

length
of neck.

Listen, sweet:
even a whole

welter of
enthusiasms

isn’t enough
to get this

thing
off the ground.

 
Joseph Spece

Joseph Spece is the editor at SHARKPACK Poetry Review. His first book of poems, Roads (Cherry Grove), appeared in February 2013. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. 

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