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portrait for the poet as genius
it is of course a question of honour
needn’t
think he knows
and oh the
neglect!
the lack of
recognition!
for the poet
who is owed an apology
for the one
who must be
the only
poet in the room
in the
country
in the whole
wide world
just this
one
garret
abject
Christ-like
in filth
for a
borrowed squalor
imagine the
unexpurgated anthology of him
none whom he
could set beside
get this
posture
crick in the
neck
the nervous
tick
the hybris!
a wink
and I think
that you
know who I mean
a kind of
Voldemort of verse
one must not
say his name
it’s the
poet who is visited by strange fairies
as bad as
religion
who is tied
to the mast for the siren call
victim of
landscape, reality, fact
who must not
read the iconoclast word
one day this
face on a coffee mug
his will be
done
his
breakfast as foretold
who never
lifts a finger
because,
after all
a solipsism –
just as the prophets!
a one man
incantation
came in a
cloud
intoxicating
presence
the one who
won’t clean up after himself
angrier over
time
more gloomy
to whom in
all glory
they must
furnish the flowers
the garden
and gone
for whom the
regular rules do not apply
who doles
the symbols out
as if God
gave to him alone
who has not
mission, conscience, truth
for the
transcendental one
for the
mirror man
mere
plagiarist of life
poet who won’t
get over himself
who cannot
make a difference
who does not
give a damn
who needn’t
make poems
because he
just is
what
presence!
even
wordlessly!
and yet to
whom so precious
to whom the
lines adoring come
and settle
on the sacred vellum
o touch his
hem
and weep
with pride!
with whom
the muses take their turns
lucky girls
end of the
bed, smoking after
still hot
whom only death
must recognize
sad nod
did you ever
meet the great man?
then and
only
they will collect
his least droppings
they are
sweet! sweet!
a kind of
manna for the mortals
no one in
his life would understand
not wife
not the far
and bastard descendants
tribe of
orphans long disowned
to such a
one
I have to
say
the cage is
open
it always
was
will the
animal come out?
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