Monday, December 10, 2007

Why do Southern poets live in New York City?

Is it perspective,
or so you can take in the retrospective
of your favorite artist
hanging on someone else's wall?

Did we not take you seriously enough,
or is that we treat our eccentrics
as part of the scenery
and not ratify the madness inside you.

From our perspective
you're the pet pig,
taught to talk,
tolerated, but not allowed on the furniture.

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