- AFTER READING POEMS IN AN ACADEMIC
- QUARTERLY,
- THIS SPRING, I DECIDED TO WRITE POEMS IN A
- POSTMODERN STYLE
-
- What happened today
- Was more disastrous, devastating
- Than it was two weeks ago before it happened.
- It would have been better
- If it had not happened at all.
- It was better two weeks ago.
-
- It is always proper and timely to praise
something.
- So I will praise
- Three weeks ago.
- I cannot recall any events in my personal
life
- That took place three weeks ago.
- So let us now praise three weeks ago.
-
- Perhaps the praise is false, misdirected,
- For if I could remember,
- It might have been worst than what happened
today.
- Yet, my praise of three weeks ago
- Might be an understatement.
-
- Language is never equal to meaning,
- Or the meaning is never equal to language.
- We talk although our neighbors do not heed.
- We do not even heed,
- We just talk language.
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