poem with seven
words in the title
Matt Robinson
a professor of mine,
in teaching, (or actually
professing, as they are known to do),
brought the attentions of the class,
cue flashback:
“and I cannot stress this enough, now...”
end flashback;
to the titles
of the poems
we
were
performing
the autopsies on.
he said, that professor of
poetry 400.0,
(now known as poetry 393.2),
that the
title
(of a poem)
could not,
should not,
cue flashback:
(“and will not, in this class...”)
“...be
under-
valued/analyzed/etc./etc./etc. ...”
end flashback.
the title is always
extremely important to
the poem’s overall meaning,
and worth,
and so forth.
(continued)
i remember that class,
(that ass)-
so now i write
just for spite, a
poem with seven words in the title.
