Now Hear This!
The title should anticipate
and focus readers’ attention.
Perhaps it should agitate
for a moment of suspension.
What is this poet saying now?
Some nonsense or philosophy.
It is not sentences somehow.
Maybe it is a rhapsody.
Somewhere between the sense and sound
a little syntax hangs around.
Now the rhyme pattern is screwy.
We don’t want consistence do we?
Why do poets have to be nuts
writing songs with ifs, ands, and buts?

Walt Abbott–9-19-08