ambulance chasing

The ambulance chasing poet was always first to write about the latest disaster.

trainwreck artist

Did the poet really think that making his life a disaster would make him a great artist, or knowing that he was making a disaster of his life, did he justify his actions as being for the sake of his art?

[Thinking of John Berryman]

emergent poems

Blaahn…blaahn…blaahn…This has been a test of the Emergency Poetry Broadcast Network. Had this had been a real disaster poetry would begin broadcasting constantly from this station.

only poetry

When everything is stripped away, as after a disaster, and one is left with nothing but language, then, then one has poetry.