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2 | title: On formal poetry | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: onformalpoetry | ||
6 | toc: "On formal poetry" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
10 | class: elegies | ||
11 | order: 12 | ||
12 | prev: | ||
13 | - title: Feeding the raven | ||
14 | link: feedingtheraven | ||
15 | next: | ||
16 | - title: I am | ||
17 | link: i-am | ||
18 | ... | ||
19 | |||
20 | | I think that I could write formal poems | ||
21 | | exclusively, or at least inclusive | ||
22 | | with all the other stuff I write | ||
23 | | I guess. Of course, I've already written | ||
24 | | a few, this one included, though "formal" | ||
25 | | is maybe a stretch. Is blank verse a form? | ||
26 | | What is form anyway? I picture old | ||
27 | | women counting [stitches on their knitting][knitting], | ||
28 | | keeping iambs next to iambs in lines | ||
29 | | as straight and sure as arrows. But my sock | ||
30 | | is lumpy, poorly made: it's beginning | ||
31 | | to unravel. Stresses don't line up. Syl- | ||
32 | | lables forced to fit like [McNugget][] molds. | ||
33 | | That cliché on the arrow? I'm aware. | ||
34 | | My prepositions too---God, where's it stop? | ||
35 | | The answer: never. I will never stop | ||
36 | | writing poems, or hating what I write. | ||
37 | |||
38 | [knitting]: roughgloves.html | ||
39 | [McNugget]: ronaldmcdonald.html | ||