Sunday, March 2, 2008


This is not a poem. Doesn't move like a poem or breathe like one. Doesn't leave marks in the sand at sunset or even flow correctly. If anyone called it a poem or a made a reference to it as one, they would be wrong. No metric no rhythm no rhyme no commentary in verse nothing that would make anyone call it a poem. Doesn't even know clearly what are verses or syllabics or any of these permutations. Look a conclusion an argument and scarcely any awareness of language. Not reflexive or referential in that way of a poem. No rules are being broken or made. Not referencing a millenary tradition of poetic innovation or form. A total unawareness of what its origins or partners in crime could be if. Definitely not a poem. Words and then kind of sentences and perhaps a paragraph. But yet it is written. And read.

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