The New Yorker's notorious bad taste in poetry suffers a blow in the current issue with the publication of a poem workshopped not too long ago on Eratosphere, Robert Mezey's "An Encounter in the Haight." If this keeps up, I'm cancelling all my other subscriptions. One really good poem a week is all I need.
I saved part of the original thread (from last July) & I see the poet has adopted Julie Stoner's suggestion of "which" for "that" in the last stanza. Score one for the workshop process!
Anyway, a great pleasure to find this poem here. Congratulations, RM.
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