Promiscuous Poetry
Rene Char was wrong when he said "a poem is always married to someone." A person may have a deep connection with a poem, but a poem is inherently a polyamorous creature and would not be confined in something as binding as marriage. At any one moment, many people will be in love with the same poem, and a poem doesn't do hierarchy. Free love for poetry! A Poem's Heart A poem's heart is fickle, it may love you now, but then it meets another pair of eyes and falls in love again. A poem sings to you alone until you leave it be and then another turns the page and lets its song be free. A poem is promiscuous, the lover of the poet, it steals a kiss from anyone and everyone who'll know it. To let a poem marry is a very foolish blunder: Keeping love from everyone will tear its heart asunder.