Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Lost Valentine

The unusual person

of today recognizes

right away the foreignness

of poetry its off-putting

or standoffishness

I’m not sure which

but the sense it

probably shouldn’t still

be happening anymore

a lost art of speaking

once common now dead

forgettable remote

on tombstones

except when it

gasps awake

some dead Romeo

by its side.

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