to
work with poetry
less denotes
an assumption
associated with this way from
this and that and intuit
social differences—manage this
manage that do what
is true for everyone or for no one or for everyone
but I think really disappoint them
their demand social poetry
gets you
internal expectation
could do to eradicate difference—
poems achieve
really disappoint
main
demands
don't say good poems
do
what
is true
for everyone
or for no one but
this is true for everyone or
for
everyone or for everyone or for everyone or
forget everyone or
predict nothing
in the second person
Source: Clune, Michael. The hatred of poetry: An interview with Ben Lerner. The Paris Review, 30 June 2016. Web. 2 July 2016.