No Rhymes

 

Reader, you are reading a poem, a part of the book
that I once got to tell a neighbor I'm writing. I
had to tell her I'm writing a book, so my staying
in the house all day to write it and to eschew
provincials in this hometown who have nothing
but sneers of envy and ignorance, ---so my stay-
ing in the house all day for several months
on end will not make them wrack their brains
in wonder and run out of reasons, i.e. run out
of Knowledges, their knowledges, which
don't run long.
                                            Well, not surprisingly the informa-
tion spread all over town, running over to other
towns, to people familiar with my face. Talk
like this, about people like me, weird people
beyond their understanding, always crop up every-
time they run out of important topics to talk
over. Which means they have the whole
day to talk theories on these people, that's
people like me beyond their understanding;
after an hour of the day devoted to routine
topics. Gossip, by the way, is important to
them. It is their newspaper, it's even their
encyclopedia. They want to know if it's
the moon that revolves around the sun, or if
it's the opposite. They have no books to open.

There was their conclusion after learning I
was writing this book. —I didn't tell them it
was a book of poems because they'd think me
either sissy or old, their idea of poetry is
rhyme,— Their conclusion was that I was
going crazy!

                                                Well, this is not exactly the U.P.
campus. Education here's only for the rich.

 

 

 

 

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