Evacuations

Strange to want to try to pry out rationales for
eccentricities of thought! – but then these oddities,
all warring with themselves, have wrought
the slammed necessity of stressed expression –

disagreement – hiss: and yet another flailing
poet’s caught in dissonant attempts to explicate
the rout with some poetic kiss. Piss against a tree
though these reiterating utterances often seem

to be, the tree survives, attracts more poets to its
wet seductive bark – becomes, in fact, the scene
of a remarkably continuous evacuation: fluid
streams from idiosyncratic groins: joined in only this:

the urgent need, poetically, to piss. Should one
apologize for such analogizing? – and instead explain
the workings of the versifying brain more nicely as
the importuning assiduities of metaphoric ‘rain'?

But oh! – another assonance now rudely interjects
itself, and will not let the crass association pass:
suddenly the task of the evacuating poet’s
mind acquires an impolite relationship to ass.


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