Friday, May 31, 2013

The Casual Reader Will Not


Can anyone imagine a life too full for poetry?
Maybe a life so busy with numbers—which
In absolute terms we know numbers are pure
Poetry if we think about it—or maybe a life
Of action a lived-predicate the absolute verb
Perhaps that’s a life too full to find poetry
I think I lived that life when I was thirteen
And masturbated constantly perpetually
At least once an hour sometimes I jerked off
Twice an hour in those heady days of youth
In truth I had no time for poetry I lived poetry
Can anyone imagine a post-adolescent life
Too full for poetry? Don’t we want to ask
Wordless demigods what numberless canticles?
 

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