GOAL
by Karen Massey
I want to be
on a cover
expanding my
success, the ultimate
magazine
I want this
so pretty
take a
picture
take a
picture of me
take a picture
ok that’s my personality
ok can anyone hear me?
SOURCE: “What Will The Fashion World Do Without Kim Kardashian?” by Benjamin Wallace, New York Magazine. Erasure poem carved from several consecutive Kim Kardashian quotations extracted from the article.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Karen Massey writes in Ottawa, Canada. She has an MA, has published one chapbook, and her work has won local and regional prizes and appeared in a range of literary journals and anthologies. Recent online publication includes Bywords.ca, and one of her poems was featured on the Chaudiere Press blog during National Poetry Month 2014.
It’s interesting how many people have gone to this Kardashian woman to find a poem.
Full disclosure: I encouraged some people to do so because I thought the results might be ironic, satiric, and humorous.
That splains it.
I see this as part of my role as editor. Every magazine, website, etc., has a brand — and I see ironic/absurd humor playing a large part in ours.
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