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2 | title: 'On formal poetry' | ||
3 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
4 | ... | ||
5 | |||
6 | I think that I could write formal poems \ | ||
7 | exclusively, or at least inclusive \ | ||
8 | with all the other stuff I write \ | ||
9 | I guess. Of course, I've already written \ | ||
10 | a few, this one included, though "formal" \ | ||
11 | is maybe a stretch. Is blank verse a form? \ | ||
12 | What is form anyway? I picture old \ | ||
13 | women counting [stitches on their knitting][knitting], \ | ||
14 | keeping iambs next to iambs in lines \ | ||
15 | as straight and sure as arrows. But my sock \ | ||
16 | is lumpy, poorly made: it's beginning \ | ||
17 | to unravel. Stresses don't line up. Syl- \ | ||
18 | lables forced to fit like [McNugget][] molds. \ | ||
19 | That cliché on the arrow? I'm aware. \ | ||
20 | My prepositions too---God, where's it stop? \ | ||
21 | The answer: never. I will never stop \ | ||
22 | writing poems, or hating what I write. | ||
23 | |||
24 | [knitting]: 25-roughgloves.html | ||
25 | [McNugget]: 26-ronaldmcdonald.html | ||