.
.
"the common body is man" --WCW
.
.
Today is a problem *in* physics
a new board to leap, dance,
chop, grind, and strike,
you can
leave out "upward and onward"
.
just
open and keep it
.
CON necked
.
the old box is a sonnet, a sestina,
that equals poetry?
every sonnet says this
"i am a sonnet"
.
"an old box filled with this
or that"
.
the old masters broke it
before you knew it
art is the _thing_
you have to unlearn
.
a sonnet is a mountain
in scale
you hearsay a vista
that is not yours to keep
.
i do not defend --
a mountain? is.
why would you?
if i chose to say
"a-b-b-c-c-a"
i would be a poet?
who writes sonnets? sestinas?
a flower that barks?
.
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[end]
Not Jay
7 May 1996
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