Somebody says something
This is why poets themselves say they dislike it
Not all poets of course but it’s been said
I’m sorry
I actually apologize for poetry
Which the Houyhnhnms would no doubt dismiss as an elaborate procedure for saying the thing that is not
Though the manifest truth obtains
That somebody says something
But oh these indefinite pronouns
Okay somebody could be anybody
And we might even say albeit with somewhat less confidence
That something could be anything
But I just don’t know what it means to say something
I mean there’s something and there’s saying
But there’s something weird about saying something
Okay
Somebody cracks
No wait
I crack a nut
So this nut is a thing that receives my action of cracking
I can perform all sorts of actions upon this nut
But what is the nut that I say
Somebody says a nut
Just no
I know I’m sorry
This must be just me and not poetry
Surely nobody could be that stupid
You probably think it’s just a pose
That I’m feigning ignorance
And I think you’re probably right
I might well have employed this problem or neurosis or whatever
As a method
Now I could get heavier pointeder bringdownisher
I think I will
Humpty-Dumpty is not merely wrong in his definition of glory
But wrong in the particular way of arrogant bastardy
And Lewis Carroll surely knew this in his satirical irony
Being of the devil’s party probably quite consciously
For the pompous fragile ovoid is such an apt figure
If only Tenniel had tinted it orange
Similarly the expression Confederate Air Force
Is no innocent absurdity
But expresses the wish that the Confederacy
And its armed forces had persisted
Into the age of aviation and beyond
So poetry does not state much much less claim
But expresses value
But since value dwells in objects
Poetry expresses evaluation
Or more precisely transvaluation
Therefore
Since I’m completely at sea with saying something
And since I seriously doubt that you can say nothing
Except perhaps nas corbort greg pmisti effrent
I just say