Norton who...?

It seems that Norton has never heard of Debuse, or at least claims he has never read any modern poetry that combines speculative themes, experimental modes, and poetic creativity. Since a poem of his was once published alongside mine in the Speculative Haiku anthology of 1991 (and we met at the launch party where, if I remember correctly, he took me to task for sneering at the "champagne"), this can only be a dishonest and deliberate slight.

I have only to say that Norton's own poetry is only as speculative as wondering what might be on television tonight, only as experimental as drunkenly trying doggy-style for once, and only as poetic as the Kindergarten limerick performed by the educationally challenged child with drool down his tee-shirt. Needless to add, the column he writes for the Bamff Weekly Gazette is not going to win any awards from the Science Fiction Poetry Association any time soon. Savvy?

"To keep out barbs and blades..."

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