begins with its subject,
which is the sentence.
Track the sentence
to find out what happens
or how it will act. It is
the subject, after all. To track,
meaning keep an eye on,
which is synecdoche,
part representing the whole
of a thing. One
may track a package if he pleases.
One may track a person,
though you’d probably want
the whole of him, not only
an eye, or perhaps
only an eye. Look how
the sentence is so capable
of embracing contraction.
A him may function
as a subject, but that depends
upon the sentence, i.e., A man
is subject to his sentence.
You understand.
Such syntax renders it like
a package showing evidence
of having been tampered with—
2019
Regular
Contemporary
2023
Ars Poetica
Humor & Satire
Bleeding Title
when the title of a poem acts as the first line
Caesura
a break between words within a metrical foot
Personification
the attribution of human qualities to a non-human thing
Synecdoche
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa