Friday, April 19, 2019

"The Quotes in the Title"

I used to have a system,
not a system, but a feel
for which poems got quotation marks,
which didn't,
and why proper case
or lower case should be employed
in any poem that I wrote,
when it came time to title it.
All based on something real,
that I resisted finding out
or trying to explain.
To try is fatal.
It could mess with it,
whatever it.
When something works,
you just don't mess.
In each case I was certain,
sure, or anyway infallible.
They seems no longer real,
those days. I look back
and see confidence,
and can't question decisions
made - but neither do I make
them, now. At least,
I make them not that way.
It seems I've lost the feel
for it. The system
has evolved. At least,
I still have

my feel

for line breaks.

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