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'''Poet's Dilemma & Imperative''' 11/08/2012<Br><Br>
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== A Poem By <u>[[Gerald Alan Ney]]</u> ==
["A poem is the unpaid labor of the intellect,<Br>
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'''Poet's Dilemma & Imperative''' 11/08/2012<Br>
the fonds perdu, practice with a sandbag:<Br>
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(See Also '''[[Task & Purpose]]'''<Br>
one-sided, inconsequential, and without partners."<Br>
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and '''[[Caedmon's Choice]]''')<Br><Br>
**- Gottfried Benn]<Br>
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["''A poem is the unpaid labor of the intellect,''<Br>
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''the fonds perdu, practice with a sandbag:''<Br>
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''one-sided, inconsequential, and without partners.''"<Br>
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::- Gottfried Benn]<Br>
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["anyway all artists feel 'other'.<Br>
 
["anyway all artists feel 'other'.<Br>
 
There's not an artist on God's green earth<Br>
 
There's not an artist on God's green earth<Br>
 
who feels 'emotionally speaking,'<Br>
 
who feels 'emotionally speaking,'<Br>
 
that he or she has been invited to the prom."<Br>
 
that he or she has been invited to the prom."<Br>
**- Hilton Als]
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::- Hilton Als]<Br>
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The writing<Br>
 
The writing<Br>
 
That we put<Br>
 
That we put<Br>
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We need to be said.<Br>
 
We need to be said.<Br>
 
No one else can<Br>
 
No one else can<Br>
The same way."<Br>
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The same way."<Br><Br>
**Gerald Alan Ney
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:::[[Gerald Alan Ney]]
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[[Category:By-Gerald_Alan_Ney]][[Category:Is-Poem]]
 
 
 
 
[[Task & Purpose]]
 

Latest revision as of 13:53, 8 December 2019

A Poem By Gerald Alan Ney

Poet's Dilemma & Imperative 11/08/2012
(See Also Task & Purpose
and Caedmon's Choice)

["A poem is the unpaid labor of the intellect,
the fonds perdu, practice with a sandbag:
one-sided, inconsequential, and without partners."

- Gottfried Benn]

["anyway all artists feel 'other'.
There's not an artist on God's green earth
who feels 'emotionally speaking,'
that he or she has been invited to the prom."

- Hilton Als]

The writing
That we put
Upon the paper
Silently screams
Its sibilants and plosives;
Yet meaninglessly meanders
Across the surface
Of many a mind.
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Too long, too short,
Too nerdish,
Too simple,
Too out there.
No rhythm, no rhyme,
Out of fashion,
Too trendy,
"Who ya think you are?"
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A man like any other
More or less.
Like Shylock and not.
A Jeffersonian bundle
Of contradictions,
Both plain spoken and
A dealer in allusions.
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Day in, day out,
A streambed dry
Till a flash flood
Of words burn
In my brain,
"Write us or lose us,
We need to be said.
No one else can
The same way."

Gerald Alan Ney