Phases
man
so this is how it works
i end up internalising more
style than i should
but if this
is how it works
who am i to object
it's damn heartwarming
though
TO REMEMBER
THE
ALL-CAPS
DEMOCRACY
THAT GAVE
SO MUCH
OUTLET
Which proudly I snatched from thin air,
Then, on and off, in rhyming stanzas,
I pulled off crazed extravaganzas,
With difficulty, some despair
After that,
a blast
from the past,
I returned to my indents
and tabs
Cooperman's
Cappelbaum shouts:
I CERTAINLY CONTRIBUTED
to your personae
to dropping the punctuation
again
to decapitating the i
the most unlikely collection of
men
Ginsberg
Bett
Turner
Whitman
Bissett
also had a lot to do with that
gave me an alibi
and now
fleeing with dewdrops of
Virgil and Milton
like frost on my nose
through an incidental
Wordsworth to
Bukowski's dead (but warm)
toes
i end up internalising more
style than i should
but if this is
how it works
who am i to complain