Thursday, June 20, 2013

After O'Hara Valentine

You can't take poetry seriously
and get your emotions involved
and start forgetting that you
can’t be serious about it
I mean how can a life depend
upon a sonnet or an ode except
if we were being honest about it
yes maybe in a poem it could
still want for the words to circulate
around you pelting you
in their rain-like way
or it could purr at your feet
or stare at you oracular and grim
and leap upon you like your death

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