letter to anselm poem about poem

LETTER TO ANSELM ABOUT POEM

something I wanted to run by you. let me know your thoughts.

The second poem, "Look," seems weak. Snarky Malarky Mayakovsky. I like it, but not sure it isn't just a phase. You know? Also a little anti-preachy preachy. anyway,

This poem seems a bit more true somehow, for it's classic winning by losing pattern. I also like that in meta mode it posits both reader and writer as needing each other for release. Tonally off kilter poem perhaps, and perhaps easily mistaken for other more nefarious readings. Like Koch's, "Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg. Forgive me. I was clumsy and I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor!"

Love Poem

You looked so restrained by your broken frame.

I immediately wanted to play music for you.

And so I took the job. I drowned myself in a lover's sob.

I hung myself from the ceiling of the broken hearts club.

I died the big O. I came the little death.

I fell into a big hole. Now who's sick?

Is it so wrong to love an invalid so?

So locked inside attention am I your man. 

Caught in the anticipation of conception.

I love you darling. Be free.

ps, just realized this also echoes the epigraph opening the book, about Zuul kissing the harnessed horse.

pps. forgive the OCD