Wax Conversation about a Poem You Wrote
“It’s weird, whenever I hear
a poem like that
with a long story
I always think
the author is trying to say something deep,
meaningful — but you didn’t try to do that.
You didn’t go for the cheap shot and
try to make a statement or anything.
I really appreciated that.”
“Well, I, uhh actually, was trying to saying something deep
about the human condition and meaning and existence in general…
but, I guess, it didn’t come across that well.”
“No, what were you trying to say?”
“I was attempting just to say that
man is wax through and through
to his deepest erection and excretion,
and also that wax
is a metaphysically confusing condition
because it melts, it changes, and man changes.
That’s what I was trying to express
in my poem using the long story.