Bad poem
By Mohammed Reza Pakzad
March 15, 2002
The Iranian
Here is a bad poem I wrote in response to that bad poem "I
remember you" and some others ones you put in your site.
Now look! What is a poem for,
If it doesn't shed light on the life?
If it isn't brightened by the love?
If you shout it behind a closed door?
Now look! What is a poem for?
If it doesn't ask for justice
Or if it does but kills that peace
And leaves you empty and sour
Now look! What is a poem for?
If it leaves you hard as stone
Or as brittle as a dead bone
Like an empty shell in a shore
Or if it cuts that uniting thread
And makes all your beans spread
-Who will get them together again?
Tell me, is that a poem then?
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