The New Criticism by Paul Hostovsky
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My stepdaughter says I’m boring. “Everything you say is boring and like so seventies.” Her mother says I’m wonderful, though. “She’s being fresh. Don’t listen to her,” she says. But I can’t help listening because I want to be fresh and not boring, and I want to say ‘like’ like my stepdaughter because everything is like something, not exactly but sort of. And she’s so contemporary and provocative and like alive. She knows all the new neologisms and would never use neologism in a poem. Like ever. “The New Criticism” by Paul Hostovsky from Is That What That Is. © Future Cycle Press, 2017. Reprinted with permission. (buy now) |