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2.25.2011

sign of the times

The young poet came up to the open mike holding nothing. At first I thought she must be a slam poet who had committed her work to memory. Then she took out her iphone/droid and she started reading from the device.

1 comment:

  1. This one really hits home.

    I'm thinking of the ubiquitous "Facebook" activism that literally launched the Tunisian & Egyptian revolutions.

    Poetry is Internet today.

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