A poem in either meaning or sound
or both, must give pleasure.
Not make you go around
in vain circles looking for some impossible treasure.
Otherwise poetry reading is frustratingly like a chore—
scramble unsightly words stamp out annoying punctuation or the depressing lack of it scream
at deliberate pretentious vagueness murder excess profound adjective and finally scrub the place clean
—and becomes quite a bore.
Jan 5 2008
or both, must give pleasure.
Not make you go around
in vain circles looking for some impossible treasure.
Otherwise poetry reading is frustratingly like a chore—
scramble unsightly words stamp out annoying punctuation or the depressing lack of it scream
at deliberate pretentious vagueness murder excess profound adjective and finally scrub the place clean
—and becomes quite a bore.
Jan 5 2008
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