In the December 2016 issue of POSIT, Susan Lewis's magazine, you'll find a Jerome Sala poem that reflects the brilliance of his mind confronting the actualities of culture. In "To 'Content," Jerome takes on that big important word that looms so large in the lives of writers who may become content-providers in the not so distant future, like maybe 2018. Here's a cascade-like stanza:
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like Marx’s ‘value’
made labor
between a bricklayer
a dog walker
a shoeshine boy
and an atomic scientist
equivalent
if translated into proportionate measure
of time, effort and general difficulty
or ease
so you
like Marx’s dad
Hegel
turn quality
into quantity
helping to accomplish
in your case
not the discovery of the ‘Absolute’
but the absolutely
complete
commodification
of all
human
and
artificial
minds!
>>>
For the whole of Jerome's poem, click here -- and here for the rest of this sparkling issue. And then read the new issue (the cover of which adorns this post) with work by Charles Borkhuis and Patty Seyburn. The issue is dedicated to the late John Ashbery. Susan Lewis writes in her editor's note, "all of the work in this issue offers 'what we need now:' these 'unlikely / Challenger[s] pounding on the gates of an amazed / Castle' (“Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”). So I hope you’ll honor his passing by reading, or re-reading, his work — and theirs." -- DL
