“The book that needs to be written next is the The Hatred of Poets.” —Kent Johnson, reviewing Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry.
If your poem is bad you can say it was a joke.
If no one gets the joke, then it becomes
a poem again, since few understand a poem
which is a poem that still might be a joke.
Poets make big names for themselves
with this trick alone. You know who you are.
Credulity, the blank sky. You, the big star.