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The Pragmatic


03.22.17 Posted in today's words by

Gregory Gunn’s most recent poem to appear here was “The Bard of Byron” (February 2017)

The Pragmatic
By Gregory Gunn

Thinking of the practical poet,
enormous as an elephant abattoir,
clammier than old Ceylon;
oh the way the world wobbles
with all his vast grumpiness,
lesser characters cower and
greater ditch their mental power;
how, hauling that perambulating
load, fatted with posterity,
struts the Goliath of this material
earth, refuter of philosophies
with utmost razzle-dazzle!

However is that Gulliver giant
of a man, that quidditas among
the well-travelled paths, that
keg of volatile wit, that rebutter
of the clergy, that Samson
of Supercuts, that vociferous
realist, that blue-plate special
cross-examiner, that Baconian
slab of bacon, and massive
marmalade of a genuine genius
less authentic than we?

Ruminate subsequently,
if you will, might Burbage
have supported Shakespeare
right to the hilt, Poe imagined
the imagination, or Michelangelo
aroused the Renaissance?



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