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2013, 7*, being, breathing, finding, growth, organic, poetry, reading, seeing, thinking, time, William Carlos Williams, writing
‘I wanted to write a poem’
sometimes
I just want to find a poem
want to have written a poem
touch in
like the weathered strike of a wind-chime
a poem already-found
pre-juxtaposed
contrasted to the usual commentary
sufficient only
to be reported
as is
otherwise
I work through my tragedies and impasse
like all good poets should
and when I have to stretch and yawn
will find
if I’m observant
a ready-grown organic
plant
in some need of pruning maybe
but sufficient only
to open
then
I read through them
I read through them all
like all good poets should
participating in that to which they point
through relinquishing all view in order
to see what is observed
and through suspending belief-enough
to breathe
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
being & writing wormhole: easily
breathing wormhole: when I sit I am the posture
poetry & seeing wormhole: Sylvia
reading wormhole: objective intimacy
thinking wormhole: the last piece of pop
time wormhole: ‘once upon a quarter century …’
William Carlos Williams wormhole: dream / career / 040712
mlewisredford 
poets
only write about writing
when they
have nothing else to write about
thanks.
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nah, when poets are writing, they are being; if they are writing about ‘something else’ they are reporting, even if it looks like poetry
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everyone is being
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but only poets write about it
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some do yes
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… and some don’t ever ‘yes’ and end up becoming critics at best, but never creative or explorative
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yet some critics
write
better than
some
explorers or creators
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who? they always arrive after the party, they have to tow the party line
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not if they are unattached critics
then there is no line to tow
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name me an unattached critic who has a readership of more than ten – business and bureaucracy have the corner on ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’; the only writers not open to control are poets because most people don’t know what they’re on about and think they’re writing about writing
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i dont see how a large readship
is relevant
to any kind of quality in the writing
most poets i read are easily controlled by
convention and a lack of
invention
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the relevance of the connection between large readership and quality of writing is precisely that access to a wide audience presumes reference to convention and a dependable delivery of product on which to ride investment to service the
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there are plenty of great writers
and great
musicians and painters who will never
he heard or seen
getting a huge readership/following is mostly
luck
plenty of bad writers have a big following and sell books
the first concern is to write well
and not many do
critics
creatives
or otherwise
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we are in accord, like the two forks of a pitch
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ah good finally
yes
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Poets only write about writing.
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This is like dancers
Only dance about
Dancing
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… when they have no music to dance to!
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Love the opening of this…Sometimes I want to write a poem, and sometimes, as you say, I want to have written a poem.
As to the other emergent controversy, I’m not sure how writing about writing isn’t writing about being…as if it were somehow ineligible.
Be well, friend.
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It is indeed about being, good sir! No controversy intended….
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No, no, I didn’t think so Johnny. I wasn’t referring to your comments, more agreeing with them. Be well~
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