At first this poem
was intended as a controlled study
of the effects of poetry upon
the statistically representative sample,
including a subset who would be force-read
a placebo.
The results were shocking. Nobody
showed up. All symptoms vanished
without reported side-effects
and the whole thing, really
had to be viewed as complete success
to be understood in its proper context.
In the history of poems, it proves nothing
and everything one might imagine
a poem is capable of
to be either true, or substantially
capable of supporting such interpretations
as render truth
itself suspect. In which case,
we must concluding: funding
must be secured immediately
and gigantically,
so that the future of poetry
vindicated by the findings
may proceed assured.
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