READING THE BIOGRAPHIES OF POETS

From the biographies we learn

that even poets are born

to families

(and that apparently in which

families matters quite a lot),

that they are

educated in schools, universities

and such

(names of some which

seem to be of great importance),

that they marry, beget and give birth

to flesh as much as to words

(some of those

who they procreate with or try or 

have sensual relationships necessarily

of the barren kind

seem to be of greater importance

than most),

they have jobs

(again, the names of those

schools, universities and such

are given a lot of weight)

and publish those

Poems More Poems Selected Poems Collected Poems

until we get to a date

which is followed by

Posthumous Poems Unpublished Poems

marking the end to the poet's

mortal existence

(even poets die!)

with the assumption

that those words

left behind

will be made

of sterner stuff

than the dust

which wrote them.

15.08.2019