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