Ars Poetica #3

I want to live in the real world // Where atoms have agreed / upon their organization, and / there more mammals / who eat green plants than mammals / who eat other mammals // Last weekend at a reading in Long beach a famous poet said, / metaphor in poetry is dead! / and then went on to explain how metaphors weaken / both objects they compare. // Example: comparing a lover’s face to an August noon.[…]