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