I was thinking about Aaron Novick’s recent poem at Metrical and was trying to find some of John Cage’s mesostics. I came across this video of Cage reading this amazing poem.
John Cage - Overpopulation and Art: A Mesostic Poem (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzPneYqBLAI
Here is a short poem of John Cage:
For William McN. who studied with Ezra Pound
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ith-ezra-pound
And here are a couple of links to articles about the mesostic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesostic
https://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Wo...fm?work_ID=181
Here's a little item about John Cage himself:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-cage