Beyond Goodyear Blimps (Or Lockdown Café Genesis)
Café chairs empty, solitary bartenders
reflect on days when every body
in the tavern put hands together for
freestyling poets, stand-up comics,
& tone-deaf karaoke singers.
Spring 2020: A broad litany of diverse voices—
electric echoes across the internet—began
to emerge: from moderated facetime venues
to zoom recitations of original verse
windows opened for written expression.
Coast to coast virtual mics provided
Unlimited prompts & fodder for verse
good & bad, images stark & vague,
connotating mild & belligerent attitudes,
playing to a dependable audience at a distance.
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Submitted on March 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | AXXXA XXXBX XBXXX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 595 |
| Words | 88 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
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