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