William Sherman
Some Clowns Think They're Trapeze Artists
it's not the speed of the words it's their weight
with whom do we go beyond the verbal
our subconscious tells us
we choose to follow
sometimes
the way down
is the way of the psychological poem
the fear and the terror of senseless violence
must stop!
think of the children
and the breathing trees
hi*fa*loo*tin*
to analyze and to do eo instanti
is process
to look back
can also be a risk
you could lose your way
you could make poetry your subject
You jump all around
because you could not follow yr. thought
into language into subject into the long poem.
Your subject is political
poetrymagazines' note: 'Some Clowns Think They Are Trapeze Artists' was later republished and translated into French in the anthology Matieres d'Angleterre (1984).
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