Poem-A-Day: Parochial Poetry by Ben Doller

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Parochial Poetry  by Ben Doller   whiter I make it when walking right in unswerved, sweating fluorescent bleach, preaching a moon page that says its welts: learn this by heart is empty but do it to do it. I make it somehow whiter, zombied and I opified allover the absolutely whitest room. I say keep your lines in line and look at me now just lining them, some flogged orthodoxen, ploughed down sillion shiny sacerdotal lines I'm supposed to like and looky I do. I like what I like. I just like what I like. I like to say look: dissident anachronistics, shambolic stuff in master rows but look at me. I even early balded to enhance the interrogation. I meander in and form more order. I like to point with my pointer, to indicate. The most afraid I like to get is a little bit. I app my accounts and survey the advantage. I tower under. I oxiclean the ivory. I shower and shower. I dig on fonts. I wake up singing I say never start with that but one morning I wake up singing the Fat Boys. I wikipede The Fat Boys. One of them is no longer. The other is no longer fat. I assess the Human beatbox via a Schwittersian optic. I exercise my massive rights. I have the right to remain. I remain. I interview just like a glacier. I hand dance. I like just what I like. My skin is white not. It fits just tight. It burns on will. My horizon is fungible. My will is like whatever. My SPF is infinity. People seem to like me. I was just born just this way.   Copyright © 2012 by Ben Doller. Used with permission of the author. Poetry by Doller Dead Ahead December 17, 2012 The author of several collections of poetry, Ben Doller's first collection Radio, Radio was selected for the Walt Whitman Award. Related Poems I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] by Theodore Roethke A Defense of Poetry by Charles Bernstein Redaction by Carmen Giménez Smith Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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