Folly Literature
Matthew Sisson
Watts Towers of words. Folk poetry penned
from hubcaps, bits of broken lives, lost loves,
and other ephemera. As big as any roadside
Paul Bunyan, elephant, or Indian, and always
wooden, even if concrete verse. Some follies
become a cause celeb, and after conservation
and editing, coffee table book bound. Most
are little more than academic tourist traps,
far, far, from the highway of mainstream
canon. Remember, all poets secretly fear
theirs is a purple, and dinosaur art.
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from hubcaps, bits of broken lives, lost loves,
and other ephemera. As big as any roadside
Paul Bunyan, elephant, or Indian, and always
wooden, even if concrete verse. Some follies
become a cause celeb, and after conservation
and editing, coffee table book bound. Most
are little more than academic tourist traps,
far, far, from the highway of mainstream
canon. Remember, all poets secretly fear
theirs is a purple, and dinosaur art.