Left The Building

I want to write, quite a bit, but I have no time whatsoever.

This is finals week. Even my boss has noticed that I'm not fulfilling all my obligations.

At least Greatpoets says this:

Why Rimbaud Went to Africa

Poetry isn't literary
poetry isn't sure which fork to
use
poetry can't name the parts of speech
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poetry doesn't like cappuccino
poetry doesn't want to be printed in a
small press edition with its name on the
cover and get reviewed in 2 little magazines
read by 3 people
argued over by 8

poetry doesn't care about glory
glory is nice but poetry figures it's
dessert
poetry doesn't want to get laid
poetry might want to get drunk but
that's only self defense

poetry doesn't want to traipse around Europe
and collect stray bits of wisdom
from ruined empires
that it can show like slides when it gets home
poetry has a headache

poetry is a slingshot
a war you can carry in your pocket
a better way to die
the kind of fire that never goes out
and never gives an inch( Read more... )

it will have little sense of humor
it will not want cappuccino
or reviews
or girlfriends
or anything else

except the death of
everything we love

David Lerner