Round 27

Yusef: "Sad Little Breathing Machine" by Matthea Harvey

Bob: "The Gold Star" by Albert Goldbarth

Goldbarth could give lessons in grossness to Gabriel Gudding:

Elaine's job on the geriatric ward included encouraging
the constipated to loose their stingy, gnarled marbles
into the bowl--by hand . . .

Harvey's discontinuous anti-narrative lacks conviction. I try to avoid reading any of the contributor notes at the back of the book, but this poem had me stuck. Still, I will be re-reading it, while Goldbarth's poem exhausts itself in a single reading. Yusef wins

After 27:

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