I’m just a fool now.
\nWriting on corners.
\nNot like the hypocrites.
\nNot like the horders
\nof slogans
\nand adverts
\nand tubs of
\ndried gravy
\nand blankets
\nand wool skirts
\nfrom Grandma’s
\ndays in the Navy.<\/p>\n
Nope.
\nJust a fool that’s
\nas foolish
\nas fools does.
\nDreaming of things is
\nas foolish
\nas fools was.
\nWhen being seen strangely
\nwas merely unique.
\nAnd writing on corners was
\nwas nothing you’d seek
\nto poke fun at
\nand run at
\nwith sticks
\nand with stones.
\nWhen poets
\nwere more than just
\npens and strange bones.<\/p>\n
If poets are foolish
\nand wasting their time
\nwriting with meter
\nwriting with rhyme
\nor with
\nnone
\nof those
\nthings
\nand with
\nlittle besides
\nbut beating
\nof hearts
\nand hearts
\nbeating
\nblood
\ntides
\nto drive them before them
\non their lonely waves
\nslave to their words
\nand wordhorses
\nas slaves
\nthen I am
\na fool and a poet
\nbesides
\nwriting on corners
\n. . .
\nbelieving my lies
\n. . .<\/p>\n
(sharp intake of breath)<\/p>\n
(pause dramatis)<\/p>\n
If I am a fool,
\nfor believing in art,
\nbelieving in love,
\nwith my words in my heart,
\nshould all of the world
\nbe then foolish well?
\nOr continue to believe
\nthat this heaven is hell?<\/p>\n
Fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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