This isn't listening. No, it really isn't. And the poet won't hear anything, Joseph Obvious and the poem being so close. You might hear in this poem guilt expressed that this poem isn't listening, but it will only be irony which we often see in Joseph Obvious poetry. Obvious won't listen. It's the same with every musician. Obvious will read this over and over. Obvious will carefully listen. But only so that you will listen. This isn't listening but I swear to you Obvious is deaf, too. Isn't it obvious? Obvious is hiding behind this poem. Obvious is somewhere else, listening to Sarah Subtlety groan.
