Because it could do it well
the poem wants to glorify suffering.
I mistrust it.
I mistrust the poem in its hour of success,
a thing capable of being
tempted by ethics into the wonderful.
Roy Fisher
The Thing About Joe Sullivan: Poems 1971-1977
(Carcanet, 1978)
A slight but lovely piece of work by my favourite living poet - one of my real inspirations :-)
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