8.6.21

FLUENT COMMAND

 by Shaun Lawton 


Cursive rules, its loops and curlicues 
reveal a lot about us.
 Perhaps its best we lay it to rest, 
buried along with the worst

 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, everything 
kept under strict control
 while the sinuous, inveterate signature 
of our blossoming

 gets rectified by autocorrection 
with machine-like precision:
 Farewell to our sensuous rhythm. 
Welcome the fascist rule.

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