Poem/CounterPoem: Williams

Poem

This installment draws down against William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All, specifically, XXI: “The Red Wheelbarrow”. You know this.

so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.

and so:

CounterPoem

define this(object)
(reference self whole)
or
(reference not that)
define was(subject object)
(is past tense)
or
(used to be)
define never(subject verb)
(condition not once)
or
(condition not ever)
or
(condition not any)
define about(verb)
(condition relevant)
or
(preposition near)
or
(consequence implication)
or (or (or))
define the(object)
(reference other definite)
define machines()
or
die()
this(was(never(about(the machines))))