Thursday, 23 April 2009

Operating under zero comments


Does America owe anything to

William Carlos Williams?


I,

M.S.P.Murugesan alias Vaiyavan,

Also known as Murugesan Paramasivam,

Assigned here to remind if

America owes anything to

William Carlos Williams.


No comments please.

We,

Me and the patrons of International Poetry,

And you the Ladies and

Gentlemen of the Jury

Assembled here got bound

Under one condition;

That is only

To operate under

Zero Comments.


You,

Respected Ladies

And Gentlemen of the Jury,

Still in India

We chersih a yoga,

(Sorry, I don't mean the

much commercialized venture,

sold and bought so extensively}

Practising labour

Unminding wages


I remind you

The honourable ones

It's what Mr.William did

In his labour rooms

Of Rutherford hospital


Bringing out

2000 babies in the short

Time span of 42 years.


As did he sought to

Deliver the American Idiom

From the wombs of ideas

To the material beds

Of maternity wards.


To quote

What Marianne Moore wrote,

His poems were

'as plain American which cats and dogs can read.'


I beg to conclude

That Mr.Williams examined the role of the poet

In American society

By the way in human society

As Dr.Williams did in his hospital society.


And you are the ones now,

To offer the verdict

Whether America still owes

Anything to Mr.Williams

as per our norms of Karma Yoga

Or not.



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