Lois E. Linkens: i checked myself. A great poem on expression and art for its own sake, from Sudden Denouement.

i have checked myself and seen that i am nothing; the bones of poets gone and done lay beneath the hills. i put on my boots and took my shovel, for to disturb them would be a lesser crime than to ignore.i checked myself and saw that i was nothing; i looked for art and saw it slither into bank accounts in dead […]

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