‘The poet, the pain’
What is pain? A mental code,
defining a single acute condition.
No doubt I possess all the features
of the modernist anti-hero, photographic
reproduction of an ill person,
standing as the basis of a parody, littleness
in importance and sometimes blue,
as the silky dress of a desultory angel.
To illustrate the means by which
this creature portrays herself
it is useful: a stone
generally analyzed on account
of its physical fault: character of subversively,
sized by a sharp acquaintance with ache.
Erminia Passannanti, 10.5.2002
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