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should poetry be careful carefully

placing its rhymes and assonances

according to preordained forms and

shapes careful that the colors don’t

clash are we so suspicious of our

selves that we insist the muse take muse

lessons and demand muses be certified

and registered and licensed and

belong to the national muse association

and if we did not insist on classification

and schoolification and instead

acclaimed each poem and poet

as unique and a miracle of big bang

creativity that would dwarf the god

himself with its pantheon of vibrating strings

each transforming itself in its

Planck space in its Planck time

bringing spacetime itself into existence

in a quantum burp drawn from the depths

of the impossible void...and what if

what if we were not careful and did not

lock our dreams wedding them one to

the other and each to themselves...

what if we allowed like true gods creation

to unfold in its own image would that be so

terrifying that we would shackle the universe

till spacetime itself had decayed and died to prevent

                                                                   Bernard A. Green