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by

Frank Valentyn

I know you don’t, but
Joe Whatsisname really liked her:
said that she had something
that deeply appealed to people
even though she may not have been
technically perfect, I was told

I asserted
that to measure by majority appeal
was reflection of a most average
and that eclecticism in taste
automatically placed you in minority
but that in striving towards excellence
at least there was professional integrity

You just don’t like Joe Whatsisname
and he’s excellent at what he does
she frothed accusingly

I worked out an apology
in self-perceived oversensitivity
quite granted others their opinion
but felt something sacred slip
in the threat to compromise my own:
it wasn’t absence of technical proficiency
but over-exploitation of that voice
on arduous Wagnerian severity
that wore down and broke the machine -

But now she’ll just never believe
that I actually quite like Joe Whatsisname
whose complex expertise lies in financial systems
that break with different modes of wear
with the remotest commonality of criteria
suffering repeatedly from transient dissonance
instead of incessant tear and entrenched cracking
although they also often forcibly retire
with an exhausting lack of dignity

NEXT?
Why don't you look at Solace
by: Seifallah M. Fahmy
from: Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

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