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\title{“Y” Is A Crooked Letter}
\date{2014}
\author{Ron Sakolsky}
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\begin{quote}
What kind
of anarch
am I
on my
best days?
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The kind
that eludes
the prisons of
“ists” and “isms”
for the
freedom
of the
“Y”.
\end{quote}
\begin{quote}
Why?
That is
the question.
\end{quote}
\begin{quote}
During
my childhood
daze
my mother
dismissed
my incessant
questioning
of her
authority
(my why-ning
as she called it)
with her favorite
parental
pronouncement,
“Y
is a
crooked letter.”
\end{quote}
\begin{quote}
Her disarming words
as inscrutable as
a kaballah spell
repetitively employed
in the hope
of confining
my untamed
anarchic sensibilities
within the
hard certainties
of the
alphabet.
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Not to be
outdone,
my own
alphabetical weapons
have always been
(direct) action verbs,
laughing lettered
accomplices,
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\begin{quote}
strategically invoked
verbal maneuvers,
for artfully dodging
the “ism”,
nimbly sidestepping
the “ist,”
and
eagerly embracing
the convulsive beauty
of the
“Y”.
\end{quote}
\begin{quote}
A flock of
Why-words
Joyfully
taking flight
from the
sharpened tip
of the
critical crook
at the
overflowing end
of the word
anarch-Y.
\end{quote}
\begin{quote}
Each why
the harbinger
of new
beginnings.
\end{quote}
Inspired by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s response when asked if he was an anarchist. “On my best days,” he said with an honest modesty. To paraphrase Ferlinghetti, I am a poet “on my best days.”
Ron Sakolsky publishes \href{https://littleblackcart.com/index.php?subcats=Y\&pcode\_from\_q=Y\&pshort=Y\&pfull=Y\&pname=Y\&pkeywords=Y\&search\_performed=Y\&q=oystercatcher\&dispatch=search.results\&security\_hash=ff58b50b6bf0eaa97c5777553ac56be8}{\emph{Oystercatcher}} on Denman Island, B.C.
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Ron Sakolsky
“Y” Is A Crooked Letter
2014
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\href{https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/391-springsummer-2014/y-crooked-letter}{\texttt{https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/391-springsummer-2014/y-crooked-letter}}
Fifth Estate \#391, Spring\Slash{}Summer 2014 — Anarchy!
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\textbf{fifthestate.anarchistlibraries.net}
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