AI SAID

by Rochelle Owens
 

AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News.

 
Damon Runyon had a bunion   
AI said eat half an onion the other half
is for the bunion

Edgar Allen Poe herpes blister
on the toe AI said Mister Poe you did
the nasty with a hoe herpes blister
on the toe

Percy Bysshe Shelley bite marks
on the belly AI said to be or not be
smelly Shelley bite marks
on the belly

John Keats tits or teats
thinner or fatter what does it matter
AI said poetry is alive John Keats
is dead at twenty-five
 
 
Rochelle Owens was part of the 1950s Beat scene in Greenwich Village as well as the early ethnopoetics movement,and eventually became involved with the start of the St. Marks Poetry Project and Deux Megot reading series. Known as one of the pioneers of experimental off-off-Broadway theater, Owens has written several plays that have been cited for their imagination, innovative language, and controversial themes. In 1969, her first play Futz was made into a film, and her plays have been presented worldwide. A recipient of five Village Voice Obie awards and honors from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Owens has published over a dozen books of poetry and received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio Center), among others.   

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