Wednesday, March 10, 2010

short poems #5

how
can these
pain-afflicted artists
of yesteryear
write
with such proficiency
when in the midst
of an attack or great
despair
or necessary drunk
enness? or, if reflecting,
how can it be
that they can re
live such agony and
mimic it on the page?

how can they endure either?

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