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MATTHEW HENRIKSEN SONG Begging for money is poetry’s subject Everyone I know has lived in Brooklyn once Everyone I know has a video on the internet which embarrassingly reveals their naïve love for a poetry that is dead by now I hope all of you still love poetry like we did together and I am sorry I have not written you for ten years When I think of you I turn to this notebook and write into the deep memory of the page which I almost always throw away a few years later when I realize it’s not this deep love that’s crap it’s the writing Writing is nothing more than a plan to throw ourselves away after we’ve thrown ourselves away into these pages most of which no one will ever see After all the pages we put poems on are not worth money That’s just the subject and so when you read a page of words it’s all meant for you and it’s like watching an old video of Kate and Max holding hands in Greenwich Village and now that all my poetry is over it’s that that I came here for and that is why I’ve stayed Greenpoint maybe you missed this white boy fucking up up and down Manhattan Avenue but probably not Probably all of this poem is just me being a human being being a video of a human being being what’s already been |