Living on Magazinethere’s no time for novelsop-eds onlyfiction if we’re luckyserialized over months or yearsThey think proles want glossy girlswith clever captionsSoon there will be no fictionjust approved opinionMagazinewill be renamed Truth StreetNo poets herebut writers for the Overgroundand readers of regret
For Flash 55 Plus! in the Imaginary Garden
Your title is inspired! This conveys all the 'grey-ness' of Dystopia, so dreary with creativity reduced to the banal. I could have wept at the last three lines.
ReplyDeleteThis is soo very poignant, Marian! Incredibly penned!
ReplyDeleteThe idea of a world of "just approved opinion" and no fiction makes me quake in my boots. Well, in my socks, but there is quaking nonetheless.
ReplyDeletesee 1960's China and present day North Korea ~
ReplyDeleteGood and poignant.
ReplyDelete'...readers of regret..' indeed--Magazine life, and all the restaurants are Taco Bell--serving cleverly disguised Soylent Green. Sharp as an un-trumped neuron, Marian.
ReplyDeletefiction... serialized! It can happen, as Grapeling points out...
ReplyDeleteWonderful - am trying to read more novels these days--relief and its own form of resistance as you point out--really well done, Marian. k.
ReplyDeleteSoon there will be no fiction
ReplyDeletejust approved opinion...gosh that's dire. Hopefully not.
I love, 'approved opinion', and 'writers of the overground.' Great poem!
ReplyDeleteBig smile at the biting humor in this.
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