Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Things That May or May Not Work

What are the right naming words
To resolve the paradox
That lifeless language outlives

The bristlecone pines it names,
Explains, romanticizes?
A nurse sings an ancient air,

Voices an ancient compleynt
On verse, on all poetry—
I just don’t get it. It sucks.

It doesn’t mean anything.
If you’ve got something to say ,
Just say it. Poetry sucks.

Sorry. That’s just what I think.
She shrugs and scans a wristband,
Then administers the meds.

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