When Language Poets First Wore Pants (A Salute)

language isn’t even

language

the Language Poet

explains. the

dulcet peach is

never peach

in anyone’s book, no

book is even

language. the

Language Poet

explains. the peach is

merely language with no

hook or book,

a book is half a peach

at most or

not at all, not

not until the

language says so. political 

language in the 

Language Poet’s book

is only half a peach

in a Language Poet’s book.