The poets' curse


from the ABC set Yutka's poems

The poets' curse for those
who will complain
where they should tell,
who judge their feeling
where they should develop,
who still express
their sadness or their joy
as if they knew and were allowed
their mourning or their praise.
As if infirm they use
the language of complaint
describing where it hurts
instead of mark their words
like sculptors do with stone
unendingly transform
stony indifference.

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