Ars Poetica #3
for this poet to be happy,
repeat tasks as followed:
write really good poems
do that every day
can i be a poet if my poems are bad; or only good sometimes – depending on my
mood? depends, if clouds arrange a certain way or the wind blows southeast,
maybe
i’ll be able to love my poems the way i want,
the way those before me have loved what is theirs
but possession makes no poem good.
one should not hold its hand,
fit prose into a mold,
put villanelles in a sonnet’s coffin.
poems are like rebellious teenagers from a modest christian background
who sometimes steal.
poems are like
future lovers
waiting
to talk.