The Martyrdom

THE MARTYRDOM: The Revenge of Art 1992-1994,
was written in the early nineteen-nineties. It is a Surrealist poem,
with modern text, with projective verse, made-up words, and
words made of capitals and small letters. It also had traditional
verses. It is the story of Julietta and Sebastian, as well as Godriella,
Tarketa, Xlara. There are six completed portions and two
unfinished. The fi fictional Communist Left, and its 13th President
FiLMer MiNerd, in the State of New Jerzip, is confronted
by DeMORePs. Originally a computer poem in BASIC, with
sound. Here only the text is printed.
STEPHEN SWEIGART has been writing poetry books for
50 years. He has worked at various jobs, primarily at a large
distributor, for 60 years. He has lived in the same house since
1985, near Philadelphia in New Jersey. He works part-time
still though a senior citizen. He is an audiophile, and gardener, and
studied classical piano at Temple and Rutgers Universities. He
has a BA in English from Temple University. He has traveled
often to Europe. He has also studied Psychiatry at Xavier and
The University of Pennsylvania.