SINCE BAUDELAIRE, A GREAT POET HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SUICIDE BOMBER

Pity the 'Western' poet of these last sixty or so years

- no government

to kill them, or

at least imprison,

they have had to kill themselves

& isolate themselves from society

(which doesn't shun them,

as it doesn't notice them,

alas!) &

just write in

obscurity of their own making. If

only they could write and perform and declare

with the vigour of an explosion

scattering parts of culture, politics & society

in the manner of body parts, limbs

torn and entrails emerging, in public venues

& on neat suits worn by faces

never visited by an honest, actually

felt emotion -

a poet should,

a poet must,

be a terrorist of word, action and

hostages shot in regular

intervals. He must act &

let time act on herself, be

its instrument, chaos unveiled,

hate uncontained, revenge's

poison blade and assassin's

gun raised to a politician's face. She

has no other justification

but poetry & life & blood running

through & away.

A poet must

made the State hate herself
to shock the wretch to life.

06.11.2017