“My mind is made up / of so many cuts / of meat.” David Tomas Martinez
survive this bridge
say nothing intrinsically
unnecessary superfluous and suppose
that a poet who advises that little-better speak
he whose role is it to enfeeble language speak
a little looser
better advised and thereby unnecessary
and superfluous and superfluous
and suppose as a poet who advises
the deep-seated one day
countess of deepseats thereby
unnecessary unhelpful and superfluous but lawful
always within the arms of the law
can a poet dance his sweet wine
therebys in all their wiggling forms within
unintentionally unnecessary and helpful
but how can a poet
among his people's trusts
become a poet-king?
how can a poet-king
who advised so
damn unnecessarily
survive?
“Two monster snakes in bristling steely sheen / Did guileful Hera send in bitter hate / Upon the babes their maw to satiate.” Theocritus (trans. James Henry Hallard, 1894)
said he
was eager to get home but bracing
himself for what he might see ill be lucky
celebrations
had already begun in
raqqa
still led forces said on tuesday
rivals
like
kurds and arabs in both iraq
celebrations had already begun in raqqa
office
all fighting
declared a caliphate declared a caliphate
i
declare a caliphate
led forces said he
was
eager to get home but bracing himself for what he might see
led airstrikes that they had taken all fighters were
clear
said on tuesday
