Monday, February 3, 2014

Attempts at symbolist poems led me to write this poem


Results

It is a vulgar, tasteless brute that read a book once.
It’s pungent aroma sticks to you like the mud it tracked onto your carpet
It tarnishes and scratches, rusts and molds.
It weasels its way in with some words that you thought made sense at the time, or resonated with the big hole in your life you’ve been covering up with shopping and movies.  
It leaves an off color stain on you that you desperately try to hide.  When someone asks you about it you try to choke down the embarrassment when you have to explain that it was all “something that happened by accident” or “well this rude person barged in here and…”
It’s the same insanity that makes you think if you keep doing it over and over again and expect different results. 
That’s what poetry is.

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