A Verbal Tour De Metaphor Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

He's unafraid of experimentation
His verbal arsenal is a real treat.
The power he belts out through his lyrics
combines prayer and a call to arms.

He pits comma against colon.
Distributes periods like machine gun bullets.
Doesn't bother to close sentences.
Splits phrases with slashes and dashes

putting Ezra Pound to shame
and to me it doesn't matter if it's true.
He plays his stanzas like jazzy Klezmer
where meaning and sound collide.

Wordy claustrophobic metaphors pit
against incongruous settings worthy of
Magritte or anamorphous flat cubist
conglomerations by Juan Gris

a.k.a. José Victoriano González-Pérez. and
look, this is simply a complex play on word
worthy of a painting or a poem or it's just
plain intellectual volvulus twisting.

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