WHAT IS PROSE

WHAT IS PROSE

BUT A HOSE

WITH WATER GUSHING OUT

THAT CANNOT BE CONTAINED

 

I SUPPOSE

NO ONE KNOWS

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

UNTIL IT IS DRAINED

Author's Notes/Comments: 

THE SECOND VERSE CAME TO ME AS I WAS COPYING THE FIRST VERSE OVER HERE...

I WAS HALF WATCHING WHAT HAPPENED TO  JACK  KEROUAC WHEN THIS POEM CAME TO ME...

I WAS THINKING OF PROSE BEING MORE OF A STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT JUST KEEPS GOING ON AND ON RATHER THAN A READERS  DIGEST CONDENSED VERSION OF A POEM...

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