A Wombless Vacuum Lacuna

 A Wombless Vacuum Lacuna

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It seems I yell out nothings, nothings, not

One thing the universe desires.  My clouds

Are chocked with ambiguities, more clot

Than what most readers want.  It seems the crowds

Want Rap instead of poetry, if Rap

Is filth and innuendo, bullying

And rape and crime, a swill of rhyming crap,

Indecent macho, drug-filled sullying.

Suppose my sonnets are not nothings, then,

So what?  If in vacuum of space,

Their sense and sound know doom–and no amen,

They might as well fade out without a trace.

  Their envelopes when left unopened fall

    From heaven in a meaningless black squall.

Phillip Whidden