I really only have
two gears for poems:
sing-song same-same
meter trucking on down
the stanzas, line breaks
playing tricks to make
the march seem free,
and
shuffle. Same as above,
but put the rhymes on
unexpected beats, just
so they're all there.
Oh, plus my standby:
conversational prose,
pretty much how I speak
- like this one. Same trick
with the line breaks,
but
I don't really call that
a "gear" - would you?
More like coasting in
neutral, down the slope,
crash off or through any
available guardrail into
handy ditch or over a cliff
and back up again. Just
so it's written down all
even-uneven, funny-
looking - it counts.
So, I have only two
gears, really. Two gears
and a mode.
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