Beware of Poets Bearing Hypotheses

 

I cannot know

 

                        As if one

            or any million, for that matter, of us

            poor mortals, could

           

                                                ever

 

                                                            take

                       

                        or is it find? would that

                        make any more

                        sense?

 

 

                                                            time

 

                                                to explicate

                                    or exculpate

 

                        the sins by which this

 

                                    and that

                                               

                                                            (tweedledum, etc)

                        maniacal verse monger

 

                                                has taxed

 

                        the patient working woman and man

 

                        in their rotten wards

 

                                                                                    with words

                                                                                    out of joint

                                                                                    or worse

 

                                                            the earnest swain

                                                            beyond hope

                                                            his pipe

                                                                        in theory

                                                            breaking

                                                            wind

 

but

wonder

            (can only, that)

that

such

                        bags of blood and guts

                        as we

                                    our own lives having been

                                    such

 

                        must admit

 

                                                                                    impedimenta

                                                                                    in proceso

 

                        are,

 

            propound so much

 

            as if

 

                        it

 

                                    (what’s

                                    that?)

 

                        mattered

 

Michael Gregory

 

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