Today I have two incomplete ones, but like I said in the beginning, I'm happier with some strong lines than trying to force out mediocre or bad poems.
100% American
and watching Obèses on TV. Back
home it's called Heavy, that passive
adjective, not like this obnoxious plural,
finger pointed at me. Me because
I have been heavy in all of its terminality
Yes, I've been every sort of heavy: heavy as old
books heavy as a swift rain heavy
like a bird flying or flying
into a window heavy like a goodbye.
The day I taught some poems
it rains on lycee victor hugo and there are plenty
of vocabulary questions. Each student reads a poem, plucks
word after word from the copy in his hands. They take Kinnell
and Clifton and Williams and Kenyon, swish their lines around
for the hour.
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