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Some certified nut
Will try to tell you it's poetry,
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To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ...
That's why I quit and took up writing poetry instead.
It's clean, it's relaxing, it doesn't squirt juice all over
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It has been played once more. I think you exist only
To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren't there
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This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you.
And no matter how all this disappeared,
Or got where it was going, it is no longer
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Trying to avoid
Ideas, as in this poem? But we
Go back to them as to a wife, leaving
The mistress we desire?
And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
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I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it take place after ...
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a litera ...
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