Conventional Wisdom

Conventional Wisdom

is a great name

for a nation-wide magazine

as Newsweek proved

in its ad campaign, circa 1991,

which claimed it offered the opposite

of “conventional wisdom”

and inadvertently

proved opposites are equal.

Poetics

“Reading your poems,” you said,

“One would hardly know

There’s a pandemic going on.”

“Yes,” I said. “That’s the point.”