Unlike your grandma, I don't blabber too much. The charm of my sexy poetry resides in the unsaid. This is not some shit that you can read in the bathroom while you text your imaginary girlfriend. As surprising as it may be to you, you'll have to work on my verses and make meaning yourself, you lazy fucks. But I'm gonna drop some hints about my famous poem Birches. Now read this and think about it :
When I see birches bend to left and rightNeedless to say, if you were looking for poetry about elves and weird obscure Irish crap, mixed with bizarre occult symbolism that no one gets, you should have stayed with Yeats. The simplicity of my realism can hint at general truths about the human condition, making my poetry far more superior. Get it? Read again "I'd like to think that some boy's been swinging them," the contraction and the rhythm of "swinging" conveys the sense of movement, as opposed to the "straighter darker" which conveys stability and height. This contrast between the vertical and the horizontal is a defining characteristic of the human condition as such. The birches are the controllable, the way in which we act on nature. But we can never swing them so far. We'd love to think that we can bend them and subdue them completely, but this is a job for the ice-storms. The field is inherited from our fathers, it doesn't belong to us in any absolute way. Note also the degree of solitude required in order to remove the stiffness out of the inherited :
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,I like to think some boy's been swinging them.But swinging doesn't bend them down to stayAs ice-storms do.
Summer or winter, and could play alone.One by one he subdued his father's treesBy riding them down over and over againUntil he took the stiffness out of them,
We learn to climb and we learn to swing and the process is tedious. But this very swinging is almost dream-like. It is not the real as such, but a process of transformation and an attempt to control and subdue. Only the earth is real and this dream-like swinging should not substitute the organic quality of raw earth to which we must always go back.
Because "Earth's the right place for love," we shouldn't fly too high with our elves and our mythologies. Yes! I am thinking of you early Yeats! Good that you had the right mind to change that shit later on. Anyway, I could talk about this shit for hours. DON'T EVEN GET MY STARTED ON MY SEXY METER. But I am not your poetic hamburger in some capitalist crap that makes everything for you, including what to want and desire. Learn to cook for fucks sake! I expect after this you'll be relatively woke. Bye poetic virgins.I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over


