A Kind of Nervous Laughter
no one should envy a writer
or readers of foreign novels
or thick armchair cookbooks
it causes a kind of nervous
laughter
writers built left of the margin:
standard
vocabulary
pleasant
curiosities
writers built right of the margin:
wittily
incongruous
warring
suggestions
no one should envy a writer
it would be the bitter end of
irony
something that would certainly
cause a kind of nervous laughter
no one should envy a writer
***
Poetry, noetry.
In propinquity,
Nic
Poetry, noetry.
In propinquity,
Nic
Hm. Was it the power of suggestion that elicited my nervous laughter as I read this poem? Or is it merely reflective of the truth - that when people tell me they envy my way with words, I respond - swear to God - with a kind of nervous laughter?
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a half/half sitch?
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