Irresponsibility

Chris Vitiello

A sample poem from the book

 

September 2004, Topsail Island, NC (#9)

 

One surface and many not-surfaces

Push it

Things contain themselves

Characteristics contain their opposites

Description and explanation undermine each other
Insert Ponge’s Notebook of the Pine Woods here

Writing exists before it exists

I am suspicious // The I is suspicious

A poem could always be latent // The poem is always latent // Poems are latent

Penguins use the bird-flying motion to swim

I will write the last lines tomorrow
          
When the doctor touched my infected skin
it did not look like a part of me

 

 

© 2008 by Chris Vitiello