August 20, 2007

Free Verse Suicide

But that which does not exist
can't be slain, meter or no!

2 comments:

Janice Thomson said...

How very true but we never seem to take that into account...

David, by the lake said...

I saw this as another koan type poem, though I don't know if it works quite as well as the "while contemplating the Tao" poem from earlier. Sometimes these juxtapositions of lines just jump in one's head...