Thursday, 26 December 2013

Don't Write Poems But Sentences by Roberto Bolano

Write prayers that you will whisper
before writing those poems
you will think you never wrote

Strange gratuitous occupation    To go losing your hair
and your teeth     The ancient ways of being educated
Odd complacency     (The poet doesn’t wish to be greater
than others)     Not wealth or fame or even just
poetry     Maybe this is the only way
to avoid fear     Settle into fear
like one inhabiting slowness
Ghosts we all possess    Simply
waiting for someone or something in the ruins


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