What Would e.e. Do? -or- Betraying Your Muse

what if judas were a was and if (was just) because
when love is only /doglick breath, a slant smile from your mother
and drunken kiss’s ‘neath lemon lamplight, of course, the thing it does
what (if judas) were a was and if was just because
when dust claims morning mouth, a slight below, before the growling buzz
and whiskey is as whiskey does, tonight to write, to red, 1 love 2 th’other
what if judas were a was and if (was just) because
when love is only /doglick breath, a slant smile from your mother

 

 

-A Triolet Inspired by James Ciriaco's poem: Anxiety of Influence, and the work of e.e. cummings.