The poet is asked to speak in the "language of the
people."

Does this mean that intellectuals, artists,
or others who keep trying, against all odds, to find
more time to spend with books, are not
to be included among "the people"?

The heartbreaking anti-intellectualism that
finds is most welcome nest in the thoughts
of narrow minded pragmatists and
misguided visionaries.

It seems much of this group has a taste
for a topping of violence on their literature
and art desserts, instead of the dreaded
and/or despised, abstraction
or ambiguity.

The fact that chaos and destruction
is apparently more true to life?
A self-fulfilling prophecy, no doubt.
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Double Room, Spring/Summer 2004
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