Friday, July 4, 2014

what for a poem is the 4th of July?


REPARATIONS: a process poem

 

Repair/rat/ions

                    ion(s)/>is on

 

Re(pai)<(r)<ations      rationales     rat/ion (ale) s

                                                                     

Repay            c                repay actions   =   sale/rations

                                                                   ⅗ person

 

 

Repair/rat/ion (ale)  s

                                 

                           Railriper(ape)(rope)

 

 

Re(rap)ation

 

                      (for us/them

                       for them July 4th

                       for us 4th of July )

 

 

Repair/rat/ions

                    ion(s)/>is on<(rape)(nations)

 

                       /(for us/them

                       for them July 4th

                       for us 4th of July )/

 

 

Re(pai)<(r)<ations      rationales     rat/ion (ale) s

 

 

Repair/rat/ions

                    ion(s)/>is on¸<(rap)))(((nations)

 

Re(pai)<(r)<ations      rationales     rat/ion (ale) s

 

Is on

 

REPARATIONS: a process poem

 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.            July 4, 2014