Z says we need real poets
now more than ever
I wonder what he means
and don’t
it involves tired words like
now, zeigeist, America
truth.
Z taught me a poem is a
machine
that transmits
mental states
but if I could share
my mind with you
I wouldn’t
I worry we would
meet in a contradictory
tangle of neurons
on some platonic plane
of poetic existence
to spit in each other’s face
we’ve lost the meaning of
good faith
what we need
now more than ever
is a dictionary
buried somewhere in this
unending tome of pages
there must surely be
a few words
on whose meaning
we can agree