Play the Violin Under Water

“PLAY THE VIOLIN UNDER WATER” it’s been said, “Good poetry is an illusion.” this simply isn’t true. there isn’t an easy life, there isn’t a hard life, the only life there is, is the life in between. we poets write so we don’t have to destroy the world. we write so there’s no war to declare, we write so there’s no trigger to pull, we write so there’s no knife to bear, we write so there’s no hand to close, we write so there’s no argument to enter, we write so we don’t live in our anger, we write so we don’t live in our pain, we don’t even write to live in our sporadic days of happiness. we write to photograph ourselves and contribute a verse to the great play that is our life. after we write, there is no need for war, the trigger, the knife, the fist, it is our argument. like the dream catcher, poetry holds the collaboration. is good poetry an illusion? no. good poetry is the life we were given. By: Chicano Eddie 7-28-2016