Accept your
failure . . . you'll discover that you melt like water.
The dog darts to catch lizards on lava rock and I pull her back with
my left hand. My student claims Language poets (contra manifesto) use
the first person pronoun, but I suggest that it stands in
for "put pronoun here." What the “I”
does in poems, it does. It's
a minor obstacle, but all too
frequent. “It's
nice outside” differs from “it's
mine” as a state does from
desire. What matter the
agent, when there's an act to be performed? The point of her tail is
white, the rest gray; half her head is
gray, the other half brown.
Rep. Steve King claims we can't save civilization with “other people's
babies.” Mine are Asian-American. In
Ashbery's poem, the pronoun “he” introduces some 40 lines of
statements, as if “he” were manifold. One Trump supporter prays
to a 6' cardboard cut-out of his hero each morning as he leaves the
house. No one can pinpoint
when this happened. They
are hyphenated
anti-Americans.
--13
March 2017
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