Today’s New Verse News: GREAT MEN
by Kyle Gervais
after Robinson Jeffers
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Consider greatness. A great man must have a following, and this is true, as death, of Trump, who pulls like a fear-blind buffalo the pressed herd onward, downward, over the land’s edge to an imagined security. Kanye too is great, is he not, in his crazy rage, and a yearning turning, centrifuge fast, to an ever darker love? But Elon’s greatness outpaces even these, demonstrably, incontrovertibly, one hundred twenty million massed numbers following him where he flutters, of all such vast images that are not good, but great, today the greatest.
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Kyle Gervais teaches Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, where he lives with his husband and two cats. He has poems in Arion, Canadian Literature, Classical Outlook, Eunoia Review, The New Verse News, Litbreak Magazine, PRISM international, and elsewhere.