Books, too often,
are written out of other books.
Poems, out of other poems.
Progeny responding to itself
like a profusion of warped mirrors,
reflecting only what is already known.
Go directly to the source,
and don't trust the poem
begotten of other poems,
with no prima materia
to distinguish it from the complacency
of what is already recorded.
3/31/1996
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