WHY
why be so singular
writing it as a poem
when you
could have (fire away!)
written it in prose
did you not
require clarity, transparency, conformity,
syntax you might
micromanage?
all of which (we
do believe) prose
alone is
the form
that
can secure
you see
the path
you see the doorway
avoid the kitchen,
drawing room
above all
the boudoir
for all
their highfalutin veneer
patina
there much
distraction and divergence
that way
leads
to carnival, sideshow,
introspection
all that
reeks
of
orgiastic pantomime
pathways opening but
then
immediately closing
rawness, roughness
that could not be more refined
but here
I am simply reminding you
of what you clearly already know
poems 2 die for 