Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Bain Valentine

A deeper shade of narcissism
than heretofore evident in poetry
haunts conceptualism meant
to circumvent the hard parts
of writing about feelings
and meaning to make irrelevant
what they cannot do themselves
like over-praised children
but let’s be real the vulture
capitalists of poetry fall back
continually on our freedoms
and the sucker blood
we call American us
but in the true country
of poetry is fought
the greatest obstacle of all
so the world
can be at peace

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