Richard Denner
Rid Ourselves of Craziness
We could rid ourselves of a lot of craziness
if we cultivated the art of poetry.
The voices I hear
are bringing me metaphors for my poetry.
I work without a manual
combining guilt tripping with electric shock therapy
to hit the zone, the 5-beat iambic
or the alexandrine
images fly by
a pinwheel
a cinema.
You want a peaceful world?
focus on literacy
every citizen reading poetry.
Fuck that! says Bob
No worse than the emphasis on math and technology
the English language is under a lot of stress from our rulers
syntax molded by Cicero, nouns by the Danes, and Beckett and Borjes.
On got as far as the Bs, huh?
Yes, took me a long time to get past Anulios and Ashberry.
Still have to digest Caedmon and Catullus.
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Richard Denner,
a jack of all
trades, lives with his elderly mother near Sebastopol, California. He
is the impresario of dPress chapbooks, and
his Collected
Poems: 1961-2000 has
been published by Comrades Press. You are invited to visit his website: email Richard Denner
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