Fb's Fab Colloseum

Salute this project!

Hail the author!
The arena reverberates
super applause
elevates average value
at triumphant pedestal
❤️  confetti showers
illusion of victory 
A fabulous spectacle

amplifies
Super, superb!

How damaging
How ravaging …

Cheers from all balconies
the upper, the lower
blanket weak assumptions
limitations
The weight of interests
lowers expectations
        ––oh, lamentation
presses the bar low
down to the bloodied dirt
A ritual massacre
hailed as a triumph
in fb’s colosseum…

YA

January-March 2025

Pale Imitation

And then I grew a
beard
the way I saw in a
Men’s magazine,
mirror-like
a pioneer’s image
razor sharp.

And when I blazed my
beard
the way my accent led me,
did I grow
–or do I err–
a shade or two
further foreigner?


Yiorgos Anagnostou. ‘Pale Imitation’.
Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 1, November 2011.