2019-03-16


Come On!
--William Carlos Williams 
A different kind of thought
...............blander
...............................and more desperate
like that of
...............Sergeant So-and-So
...............................at the road
in Belleau Wood:
...............Come on!
...............................Do you want to live
forever?--
...............That
...............................is the essence
of poetry
...............But it does not
...............................always
take the same form.
...............For the most part
...............................it consists
in listening
...............to the nightingale
...............................of fools.

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