Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hating Back Valentine

The failure to recognize

how prose always

hated poetry always

tried to undermine

annihilate and finally

replace him with herself

how this goes back to

childhood even to life

before birth before the Greeks

even the later comedians

the post-savants of their time

still pretended things were mended

between them and their rhymes

but it was all just suppressed

a gag order behind walls

until poetry started

to hate back again

even if only to expose

prose as prose

wherever and whenever

she appears as poems.

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