Audioblogger: Poem - The Variations

I wanted to read a poem tonight. I read a few William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore poems to warm up. And for you, I read a poem I wrote around Christmas, The Variations. Click on the audio post button to hear my reading. You can also save the file to your PC or iPod. As if! /jack

The Variations

1.
I don't know which is better
The thing itself
Or the chicanes

Lacunae
Variations
Selections

Emendations
Redactions
Prevarications

Blurring and
Sharpening
That transmogrify the tale with time

2.
I don't know which is better
To see the baby emerge
Or to see who the baby becomes

3.
I don't know which is better
To ponder the variations
Or to not

4.
These rogue and rococo thoughts
Skitter sideways
Like a sideshuffling crab

Using evasive tactics
In case anyone locks on
And attempts to impose

A framework
Of coherence and congruence
On these fitfully nuanced palabra

5.
If you actually begin to understand
What I am writing
We have all missed the point

Sometimes I don't know
What it means
Until someone else tells me

6.
Sometimes I don't know
If it's better to pull your leg
Or my own

7.
I don't know which is better
The fog and the detours
Or the thing itself.
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