Elaine Equi

1953 / Oak Park, Illinois

Ode to Weird

Emily Dickinson was weird.
Fernando Pessoa was weird.

All poets are weird
even when their poems
try to appear normal.

Macbeth's weird sisters
stirring up trouble's
unsavory soup:

‘Just be yourself
and you'll be king.'

Weird always wins and loses in the end.
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