Do we need to like poets
to like their poems?
Art lives independent
of its creator,
many would say,
but that's like claiming
that wars exist separetely
from the rulers who start them,
or that the fire started
by an arsonist flickers independent,
that the abandoned child
found and abandoned again
by a famous poet on his
northward journey
exists separate
from those who abandoned them.
No man is an island,
remember? So how could
poem be considered separate
from the mind that crafted it,
anymore than a bomb dropped
on a United Nations school
turned shelter for refugees
can be considered separate
from the pilot who dropped it,
from the commander who gave the order
or the ruling politician
who ordered the genocide?
Artists are responsible,
even if they don't change
brush to Zyklon-B,
poems are chained
to those who begetted
and birthed them
by unbreakable link of steel,
until time erases all memory
of the bard who slouched
out of Stratford-upon-Avon
the song is crucified
to the troubadour.
15.11.2025
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