Poets Soar for Immortality as Dog Walks Down the Street

poets

A short, self-aware poem reflecting on poetic style, immortality and the challenge of writing even the simplest sentence well.

poets seek immortality
& most never achieve it.

blindingly drunk the sage
raged

that most can’t even write
a simple sentence:

like a dog
walked down the street.

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