so
what about those poets
with world vision?
no?
well how about
national vision then?
William Blake for one
PB Shelley another
our poet laureate
Carol Anne Duffy
could she be so
along with Kate Tempest
and her like?
in America
Allen Ginsberg tried
and Laurence Ferlinghetti
continues to try
to save America
from itself
‘poetry makes nothing
happen’
wrote old Auden
so was this
a self-fulfilling prophecy
or
a cry of failure
who reads him
any more
anyway?
is poetic ambition admirable
we wonder
or self-delusion
and who cares outside
the incestuous world
of professional poetry?
outsider poets
couldn’t give a shit
and like them
the rest of us
are pissing in the wind
anyway
Jeff Cloves
Montage: Claire Palmer
dear Claire Palmer thanks again for your inspired work – Johnny Rotten Somewhere over the Rimbaud c’est parfait
Comment by jeff cloves on 13 June, 2018 at 9:04 amNice one Jeff 🙂 mon plaisir!
Comment by Claire on 13 June, 2018 at 8:15 pm