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      February 20, 2019Dear Cuck (From an Admirer)Marc Di Martino

      “Dear cuck,” the queer email began,
      “your verses are a monument
      to doggerel. You are a man
      spawned in an estaminet,
      likely a faggot, ass-for-rent,
      Jew or Jew-lover with a plan
      to wrong what’s right. Perverse & bent,
      your soulless writing is a stain
       
      on what is proper, sound, upright.
      You do not know me, but I know
      your kind. As Uncle Ez, our light,
      wrote, ‘Usury is cancer.’ Blow
      my eight-inch cock. I’ll come for you
      with tiki torch on seder night,
      throw you from your bedroom window.
      Daddy says, ‘Might makes white makes right.’”

      from #62 - Winter 2018

      Marc Di Martino

      “Poetry for me is largely an experiment in surprise, not unlike going to bed in one place and waking up in another. I love to get swept up by a poem as it invents its own logic, hanging on for dear life just to see what happens in the end. Writing, however, is not always such a pleasurable experience. ‘Dear Cuck’ takes its title from an actual email I received from someone in the poetry ‘community.’ The author proceeded to insult me in ways not very different from those showcased in the poem itself, and for reasons—I gather—of political affiliation and psychological predisposition. I wanted to tie this brand of prejudice to its literary forebears, Messrs. Pound and Eliot. I assume any reader familiar with the so-called ‘alt-right’ will know who ‘Daddy’ is.”

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