Aesthetic
Manners



There has to be some orthodoxy
whose mask issues from insecurity:
the filmmaker assures his crony,
"It's a documentary -- but crazy!"
not to be bridled with solemnity,
the past taboo:  class in society
was beaten down by this barbarity  -
of this leveling conformity
only the bum or genius is free.


David Francis

If you have any comments on this poem, David Francis would be pleased to hear them.

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