Thursday, October 30, 2014

Between the Act and the Matter of Fact


When I imagine your wanton whispers
My threadbare tympanum trembles thinly

These days I feel like a tired t-shirt
Hanging grayly from a doorknob 

These days all the words I fling at the world
Narrow fast back upon me
Here in the dry outskirts of profundity

You say that my poems lack
Thematic content of the kind
The word “poetry” in the entire
Virtue of its meaning signifies

Far stars evaporate

Even this mug of tepid tea
Has a faint taint of complaisance

You say that the poet 
Who never uses a past participle
Deserves the eternity he strives for


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