All poetry is political; the Western Han dynasty
had an entire bureau for collecting and adapting
folk songs for courtly use, and the Confucians
turned the love songs of the Book of Songs
into political commentary, the ruler becoming
the yearned lover whose attention the Sage
seeks for the consummation of a perfect state.
All poetry is political, and the poet allowing
the wind to open their weakly-tied robe
is letting it open for the calculating gazes
of bureaucrats and politicians.
11.02.2023
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