Wednesday 31 October 2007

What poetry?

The kind that stops short of a sonnet

just because I left no mark
on you or Petrarch?

The kind that breathes deep

then runs into pages
because I haven’t seen you for ages?

The kind that practices scales

and renders a chorus
because it’s lonely and amorous?

Or the kind that pulls out a Kleenex

and blows its nose
as another couplet comes to a close?

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