Clear in Retro
We live by the urgent wave
of the verse
First they said Lazy
but now we know better.
Then later He’s plain Crazy
but it was print. Each letter
of the line of the poem
pushed you further from home
and then you were took
too (sic) the nut house
which was like a giant book
that they enclosed about
you and made you a curiosity
when I’d prefer you’d be, well
a monstrosity.
Jack of Diamonds - John Clare