But Winners & Losers

February 8, 2024

I have no regard

for other poets

how could it be other

As they conscript

the words away

of which I’ve not discovered

A battle royal

zero sum

as phrases block and parry

The winner left

his voice reclaimed

— the loser most disparaged

(The New Room: February, 2024)

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