Poetry is like poetry. For
Clinging to one tradition, poetry is like nothing
Else in entertainment; it reveres collectivity,
Tiered access & flavors of spontaneity.

I’m thinking of a most awkward color.
The musk ballroom looks
Tiled back & forth mistily
Across immense miasma. It seems useful.

“Do we get party hats,” asked one rich in the tradition.
In another direction an ex-party manager
Advised a close reading of The American Heritage Dictionary.
The poetry label can be a headscarf, more than obvious:
Wild-eyed, on the curt side, one makes a preparation response
Framed like all the others’.