This Is A Quote

about Simone Muench's new book, Lampblack & Ash, from the Introduction to the book, written by Carol Muske-Dukes.

What Muench does in these poems is what, in fact, all poets purport to do—that is to say, talk to the dead

I was, after reading this, possessed of an epiphanous moment. I wrote a poem. I would like to share it.

poets don't
talk to dead people.
necromancers talk
to dead people.

burn the necromancers.
burn the witches. burn
saul. burn the false
prophets. if the

only books that are read
are in the new testament,
why include the
old testament at all?

burn the old testament.
remind kansas city
about the injunction
against false prophets.

burn kansas city.
the water is cold
this time of year.
burn the river styx.

Simone Muench's book may be purchased at Sarabande books.