SHAM OR GENUINE
As
a writer, are you a subnaturalist,
A
naturalist, an antinaturalist,
Or
a supernaturalist, viz. dramatist,
Novelist, philosopher, or poet?
Are
you of the Father or the Mother,
Of Christ or the Holy Ghost?
Is
your work aristocratic or plutocratic,
Technocratic or meritocratic?
Do
you write it on its own true level -
Philosophy
in aphorisms, poetry in free verse -
Or
on some higher or lower level,
Depending
on the genre?
And
is what you write applicable to
The
genre in question,
Like
worldly appearances to literature
And heavenly essences to poetry?
Are
you a muddlehead or a genius,
Sham or genuine?