BROUHAHAHAHA

There's a lot of hullabaloo going on over at Lemon Hound about a poem by Josef Kaplan called Kill List. It's published by CARSAREREAL.COM in Baltimore, in 58 pages. The book is a very quick read, or scan, I guess you could say. Each page has a small list of four items. Four contemporary poets who are described either as 'a rich poet' or 'comfortable'. In alphabetical order through the book. Under the title 'Kill List', which I guess gets everyone's attention. So of course you have poets who have found themselves in the list being angry about being essentially accused of selling out for money. And you have commenters who are supportive of the poets on the list and those who are supportive of Kaplan's stance and lots who refer to each other as trolls. And of course there are the extreme comments about Kaplan himself. Not least of all that Kill List is not a poem. A bit of humour that went unnoticed by many is that on the back cover the book is priced: $15.00. This is a book for sale, hopefully to make the author if not rich then at least comfortable. It's kind of like, this guy is so tired of working infinitely hard for a big ZERO in the pocket book, that he is going to bloody well give in and go the opposite extreme, do what the rich and comfortable do, just make money. And by putting in the absolute minimum amount of work per page, just extending the list until the book is filled (which has to be 50 pages at least to earn a government ISBN number and yes there it is right in the next line under the $15.00 in exactly the same font and size). But, as you can see in the link here, the book is in any case actually free. Why? Because, for one thing, who would pay $15.00 for it?

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