FRANKO BUSIC

Poet Who Does Not Mince His Words

I thought
I would make the painting in an old-fashioned style,
but the painting has painted me,
in a modern style,
with horns of the creative power
and the strength
that tears to pieces the aureoles of vanity
of the academic snobs.

I thought
I would make a poem in a modern style
but the poem has made me in an old fashioned style
with DA DA DA and plenty of commas
in front of and after DA;
glory to the old fashioned poem.

I though
I would sit and write a poem
but the poem has written me,
the poet,
who does not mince his words.

In nomine Domini Inferi,
I said,
without mincing my words,
yielding the poem
Poet who does not mince his words.

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