Given the possibility of soliciting different responses to the request of
suggesting a poem for a newly webbed couple (I presume it was expected to
be a love poem or whatever has to do with the idea of "union" in
sacramental/institutional way) I ask myself :
were we all, with no exception, expected to post poems, (like little
donkeys loaded with heavy saddles and hay in procession to a
mountain "Basilica") or were we also welcome to submit different views,
even if they came out as ironical ones?
So, I am posting againg mine, nude and crude as it is and as it meant to be:
"Generally I deeply object (I said that elsewhere on Poetryetc)
to using the personal pronoun "we" in poetry.
Even in a marriage poem, I would avoid the horrendous "we"
as a point of prinicple.
This not because I am against marriage in an institutional sense, no.
It protects both parties.
But because I instinctively suspect the notion of "union", ad with it
the
platonic principle that man and wonam are two halves of the same
apple.
In marriage, it is much healtier dining at a long long table and
sinning
in separate beds.
erminia"
NB It does not work with me to attempt censoring what I am saying by trying
to ridicule me publicly, Francis. Or trying to create alliances (oh, the
use of the "we", again). This is a technique used by power-seeking
politicians to which people generally know how to react against.
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