#50 - Wendy COPE

THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE POET

(The Tate Gallery announced that it had paid £ 1 million for a Giorgio De Chirico Masterpiece, The Uncertainty of the Poet. It depicts a torso and a bunch of bananas. - Guardian, 2 April 1985)

I am a poet. 
I am very fond of bananas. 

I am bananas. 
I am very fond of a poet. 

I am a poet of bananas. 
I am very fond. 

A fond poet of ‘I am, I am’ - 
Very bananas. 

Fond of ‘Am I bananas, 
Am I?’ - a very poet. 

Bananas of a poet! 
Am I fond? Am I very? 

Poet bananas! I am. 
I am fond of a ‘very’. 

I am of very fond bananas. 
Am I a poet? 

[from Serious Concerns, 1992]