Tuesday, March 22, 2022

An Unfinished Poem for UNESCO's World Poetry Day (for Anne Carson)



Men is a Man men are increasingly uncomfortable with 

A Man with many heads who doesn't think with one

The weakest amongst them is the man all men are held to

Weakness as defined by monarcho-feudal behaviour


Who among us wants to be a king or a queen these days 

To rule is to retain too much of ourselves, our prejudices

Claudius was disabled yet became Rome's fourth emperor

His nephew, Caligula, held forth as all men, and was weak 


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