Reality Comments

Write poetry like Eliot, Stevens, Ashbery Read poetry by Eliot, Stevens, Ashbery Impress themselves And try to impress others With high sounding tones Feigned eloquence Meanwhile reality Sits on its haunches Waiting It is ever present In all its forms What change it undergoes Is only superficial The themes Remain the same The essence Is always the same Verily, this is the reality we all poets should ponder Loved reading it.........10

An apt description of the escape mechanisms people use to escape from.... As I struggle with the definition and concept of reality, I don't know what it is, if anything at all, that I am escaping from when I engage in some of those activities