So Much Depends

By Deborah Russell

21st Century

So much depends on questions.
What is the constitution of an educated man?

Part of a poem...
incongruent lines,
bell curves,
for whom the bell tolls.

A word, here.
A word, there.
What sense or nonsense
is part of a poem?
What is a significant gain?

So much depends on questions,
Who can decipher?
Who makes amends?

Part of a poem.
How is it possible
to understand?
Who will comprehend?

Why does a poem, or does it not -
begin or end?
When did part of a poem
become
The Poem?

Go!
Go out of that now!
Absorb and dissolve.
Resolve into memory, a part of a poem.
Between the lines and punctuation, Go -
circle toward the definition.

DayPoems Poem No. 2347
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