Flop House Lauréates
It’s seldom wise to slash
away at an underripe harvest.
Far better to reopen the
investigation into what drives
the impulse, or carry on with
unfinished autopsies on
selected cadavers—now easily
available to those with
the stomach & a keen eye
for the sordid details.
It’s like we’re forever trawling
an index of minor poets in a
Proustian stupor, or seeking
oral on the whining ego
from caffeine tinted lipstick.
It’s a mutual exchange of
knee jerk puffery between
ourselves and a fickle band of
lethargic moth eaten minions.
©️Orion Foote, 2022
Visions of Orion Poetry 
I love your style. Your poems are so aggressive and refreshing. Some of them are a little too abstruse for me. I’m not very well read, but Google search comes in handy.
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That’s really nice of you to say; thanks. Well I don’t mean to sound aggressive, but I think a writer needs a bit of fire, or else we’re all just prancing around in a bucolic fantasy – perhaps the comedy element sometimes gets misinterpreted; I don’t know.
Keep writing and read lots of good poetry – it’s the best way to learn the language.
And observe humans; keep your eyes and ears open and use all of it in your work.
Cheers 🍻
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That’s great advice. Fire is what’s missing in most of the poetry posted on here on WordPress. Cheers!
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Yeah well, I basically just use it as a place to archive my work – from what I’ve seen of the reader feed, it’s mostly people wining & dining themselves on affirmations and such, which is absolutely fine but I just don’t find it very interesting or stimulating.
Each to their own and all that.
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