There’s Poetry and Then There’s Poetry
“There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry,
and the best of all is to live poetry.” ~ Rupert Brooke.
The schoolboy grown to be a poet found
Intensest poetry inside the holes
Of men and women. Selfishly he ground
His way to heaven, tattooing their souls
With poetic thrusting and with semen.
Both they and he all thought that he was like
A god, part god and poet, a daemon.
He wrote white lines inside them with his strike.
The rumors are that he got women big
With more than poetry, with off-white verse,
But as for Denham Rupert danced his jig
Between his hips and left. That poetry was terse.
Tahiti’s Taatamata saved inside
Her something more sustained than Rupert’s sin.
~ Phillip Whidden