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A Short Poem Extends Its Arms All Over the Net

Dateline: 4/2/97

Any poem can be a nexus made of words. . . It takes ideas, images, metaphors, experiences in, and threads them back outwards in unexpected directions. Gary Mex Glazner, editor of the e-magazine Headless Buddha, has made this manifest in his treatment of Whitman McGowan's short poem:

CREDIT SLAVE

The man who installed systems

For automatic credit card purchases

Was himself a credit slave. . .

He'd whip out his dirty Visa card

With a tortured look on his face

Changing to joy, and, flash, back again. . .

reprinted with permission from:

Headless Buddha
"First Thought--Third Thought. E Po for the late 20th century."
Gary Glazner, Editor/Webmaster

"Credit Slave" is from Big Petits Fours
by Whitman McGowan on Viridiana

Big Petits Fours is out of print, but you can order Whitman's new collection, Contents May Have Shifted, from:

Viridiana
P.O. Box 471493
San Francisco, CA 94147-1493
margwhit@ix.netcom.com

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