John Keats
John I have you now in pocket poets
the poems carefully selected and ransacked
by the editors and readers over the years
like the elaborate tombs of the pharoahs
they have been inside and have commented
taken away the best comparisons, the best images
stolen the best interpretations, cited the best pages
leaving very little for me, except for your poetry!
for here commentary and criticism used in analogy
with the tomb raiders, obviously breaks down
So I will construct another entrance, another pathway
into your heart, one at which those damn
know alls will tremble, and definitely hesitate
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