The Receptionist: That's Some Kind of Poem

A photo of an art exhibit of John Giormo poetry paintings. The wall has large block text on it that says "Space Forgets You" and then small square paintings are over it saying things like "the world just makes me laugh", "we gave a party for the gods and the gods all came" and "when the going gets rough the tough get gorgeous"

I'd never heard of poet John Girono, but now I'm sad I never got to hear him read one of his poems. (I guess I probably could look something up on YouTube). The man's work reads like a deadpan, angry rant and I've never encountered poetry like that.

I don’t
know
what
you’ve been
doing
today
I don’t know what
you’ve been doing today,
but today
was one
of the worst
days
of my life
but today was one
of the worst days of my life
but today was one of the worst days of my life,
and you’re walking
down 2nd Avenue
coming to
St. Mark’s Place
-Excerpt from Eating the Sky by John Giorno

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That's Some Kind of Poem

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