Statistical Meanderings

If you are already a poet, a standing member of the
establishment’s august chorus of couplet creationists
and your surname’s Dunn there’s a fair chance
you are listed at the foot of my ‘Poem Hunter’ page.

You didn’t have to do anything special to engage
the distinction – apart from what you’ve always done;
‘distinction’ here is used in an anomalous sense

of an absolute and eerily random assignment.

Ostensibly there is a more sinister plan suggesting
readership has a discerning end, statistical meanderings
and popularity, or even genre, might have had something
to do with it. Amazing? But then again, patent bullshit!
© I.D. Carswell 2006