Blacking Out: Jefferson Carter
I blackout someone else’s poem and have fun
Do you think blackout poetry is just “deleting” and not creating? You might be Jefferson Carter, a poet who, when he’s not going after poets who aren’t white and male, spends his time trying to troll me because I defended him once (you can get refreshers here). He also berates me for doing cento-style poems like my Stone Soup Croutons series. Unless a poem’s words come directly from his head, he don’t like it!
As I tried to explain to him once, “Sometimes editing someone’s words as I do with erasure and blackout poetry can bring out truths their verbosity hides.” As an example, I brought up “Bull Elk Speaks,” a poem that, to his chagrin, hasn’t been accepted for publication as of this writing. Let’s see what I can do to improve this.
Read his version bellow or via the above link.
And now I take a crack at it.
Bull
The great
gift of copious
waste.
Our
orgasm
poorly planned
before sleep.
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