Of Gertrude and Mitt and Barack and Gertrude. Gertrude.
for this is so because
Maybe we’re mistaken about our political discourse.
Maybe the shout of half-truths is
Itself a deconstruction—
A mimicry
Of conversation.
Since we now listen with our eyes
To the form that
Comforts
Us
Most.
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Image Credit: Gertrude Stein Reading “If I Told Him”
conversation is an engine 
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