The Poet Tom Beckett

The Poet Tom Beckett

      The poet Tom Beckett is a horny avatar.

      The poet Tom Beckett is an impaired grammarian.

      The poet Tom Beckett is a born again virus.

     The poet Tom Beckett is a number.

    The poet Tom Beckett isn’t any number than it used to be.

      The poet Tom Beckett does not confuse itself with infrastructure.

     The poet Tom Beckett is a semi-permeable membrane.

     The poet Tom Beckett is a leaky thought bubble.

     The poet Tom Beckett is a lot of work.

  The poet Tom Beckett is: a) opaque or b) transparent?

The poet Tom Beckett is a hapless conductor on a runaway train.

The poet Tom Beckett is the hapless conductor of a runaway train of thought.

   The poet Tom Beckett is given to repeating itself .

    The poet Tom Beckett is given to editing itself.

 The poet Tom Beckett is an intervention in reality.

    The poet Tom Beckett is in need of an intervention.

  The poet Tom Beckett is not the sum of its intentions.

   The poet Tom Beckett is whatever it appears to be.

   The poet Tom Beckett presents contradictory views.

  The poet Tom Beckett is an uncomfortable performer.

    The poet Tom Beckett is a sweaty schlub.

    The poet Tom Beckett wants to listen to you.

    The poet Tom Beckett wants to be heard.

.    The poet Tom Beckett is afraid of the herd.

    The poet Tom Beckett is certain of very few things.

    The poet Tom Beckett knows a few things about collage.

The poet Tom Beckett wants to befriend you.

   The poet Tom Beckett will be found wanting.

    The poet Tom Beckett cannot find its ass in a parking lot.

   The poet Tom Beckett is not and never will be the poet the nation wants it to be.

   The poet Tom Beckett is a complete and utter _____ (fill in the blank).

  The poet Tom Beckett is an unreliable narrator of its own experience.

   The poet Tom Beckett is neither an aphorist nor a forest (discuss).

   The poet Tom Beckett is preoccupied with limits, enclosures, shadows and projections.

   The poet Tom Beckett has too many questions.

    The poet Tom Beckett is socially awkward.

   The poet Tom Beckett is not the king of the blues.

   The poet Tom Beckett is not the boss of you.

   The poet Tom Beckett has insisted over and over again that poetry is received like an unsolicited kiss.

    The poet Tom Beckett is hoping to hear from you.

    The poet Tom Beckett can’t help thinking that poetry is a disease from which one doesn’t want to recover.

    The poet Tom Beckett is kind of whackdoodle at times.

   The poet Tom Beckett dreams of a world in which poetry transfigures things and in which poets are free to dream.

 The poet Tom Beckett thinks that different approaches to poetry have always been contested.

    The poet Tom Beckett thinks that poetry and philosophy are often confused.

 The poet Tom Beckett doesn’t have a plan.

  The poet Tom Beckett wants to be loved but not at any cost.

  The poet Tom Beckett is not unfamiliar with bathos.

   The poet Tom Beckett is not trying to be overly familiar with you.

   The poet Tom Beckett is just trying to continue doing what it can do.

   The poet Tom Beckett has been working on this poem all day.

    The poet Tom Beckett worries about what is and isn’t fiction.

   The poet Tom Beckett is an uneasy warrior.

  The poet Tom Beckett both wants and doesn’t want you to find him.

   The poet Tom Beckett is trying not to

   The poet Tom Beckett is trying not to be

   The poet Tom Beckett is trying not to be found

   The poet Tom Beckett is trying not to be found in

    The poet Tom Beckett is trying not to be found in this.