So an easy way remains the one least likely
to defeat our fragile ebullience, and nothing
challenges its belief; in a sense, we have to
tackle an ogre, tyrannical foreboding thief of
things yet to be experienced, yet tinting that
already-pigment-selected palette you’ll likely
use in describing it; thus even before you’ve
begun, you’re parting ways with formality
Yet it is my view of poetry you’ll say - & little
or less matters as much in bigger issues, of
more consequence tho freed contemporary
embeddedness, but I digress; if I said it my
way you’ll see there’s a difference between
what I see and that which commonsense &
consensus confuses as the same issue; its
no inference, today’s preference agreed, &
Doesn’t need struggle with word meanings
used out of context, the lingua we flee from
wisely when we want to say the something
milieu will not ‘politely misunderstand’, nod
idly & blithely wander on - its that for which
they cannot be accounted - they didn’t coin
the phrase or vocalise it that way, & its not
yet even begetting in their vocabulary
But, by Monday, it will be genesis of a new
genre they’ll be accountable to - and there
denizens of nu-speak will rephrase all of its
tenets in terms they’ll be selling their wares
to - harbingers of The News tru-speak view
of what we must see now, and leaving me
to curse on cowed in the pedestrian words
of my extremely conventional poetry
© 27 November 2015, I. D. Carswell
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