Everyone knows that Plato
in the tenth book of his
Republic, proposed to banish
poets from his ideal State
—Sven Birkerts
It goes to show
what everyone knows.
Well below
The practical city
of laundered prose,
the tired and tatty
poets conspire
in solitude.
They set afire
pipe and cable,
They send up lewd
reworkings of fable
through manhole covers.
They mail out letters
petitioning lovers
to abandon their betters.
Everyone knows
they had to move on.
We heard in prose
the poets are gone.
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