AFTER IMAGISM

i did not learn

that love

like writing

is a twisted

game of hard

light and

clear

lines until

i was divorced

twice which doesnt

mean much unless

youve been

forced to wear black

socks embossed

with yellow tacos

a gag from a man

you were allowed

to call grandfather

for only two years

every man wants

to hear

he is grand

at something

i hear the devil

wears prada

but my ex

would say taco

socks let me

ruin the surprise

it gets worse

my second marriage

was an act

of god inevitable

i tell myself

even ezra needed

a come to

jesus moment

pound quit

imagism for

a movement he

coined vorticism

he said imagism

had lost its edge

that they waxed

fat and romantic

though ezra

really left

because amy lowell

had seized

control of his hard

light and clean

lines club which

makes me wonder

if what pound

really meant

was divorticism

if tradition

is a joke

we retell but

dont understand