People Poems · CTP-0127

Russet, Trivial, Dissident

Original typewriter poem by Chris the Poet

Original typewritten page for Russet, Trivial, Dissident by Chris the Poet

Transcription

You can only type what's pretty yet trivial for so long on a 1938 Corona Sterling with a black/red ribbon before the words and letters begin to blur together like drunken slurred speech, before the black and th -e red meld into a finger hurt ing russet bloody hue, or so these irises and fingertips tell it—but why should I protest and play the dissident when I see double the dollars I could of sworn I had just a few minutes ago before the sun went down and my astigmatism flared up? So tell me again, what are the next three words? Love, love, love! Yes…love, love, love...