by Shaun Lawton
Cursive's rules
Cursive's rules
its loops and curlicues
reveal a lot about us.
Perhaps its best we lay
Perhaps its best we lay
it to rest, buried along
with the worst
of our secrets
of our secrets
and plotting and lies
a nice clean typography
will better keep us in line.
It's fine, don't worry
the quatrains
will be running on time
will be running on time
everything kept under strict control
while the sinuous, inveterate signature
while the sinuous, inveterate signature
of our blossoming
gets rectified by
gets rectified by
autocorrection
with machine-like
precision.
Farewell to
Farewell to
our sensuous rhythm.
Welcome the fascist rule