You'll Get Over It

Poetry makes you feel better.
It does not make you happy
when you are sad. It makes
your sadness more precise.

"A pure heart wants one thing." (Søren Kierkegaard)

Philosophy cannot change
how things are done.

No poem can fix
                    how people see.

The peculiar affectation of philosophers
that existence is a mystery.

The strange conceit of poets
that inspiration is an authority.

My perverse obsession
                                      with their likeness.

Do you want their praise?