- I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
- Everytime I have a little free time
- I feel I have to write a poem to you.
- But now that I’m writing one
- everything is OK, reminding me
- of Wassily Kandinsky who said
- that “If the emotional power of the artist
- “can overwhelm the ‘how’
- “and give free scope to his feelings,
- “then art has started on the path
- “by which she will not fail
- “to find the ‘what’ she has lost,”
- which is the “soul of art,
- “without which the body
- “(i.e., the ‘how’)
- “can never be healthy,
- “whether an individual or a whole people.”
- His style is maybe a little more elated than mine,
- but I guess he means the same:
- that neither I nor my poem to you
- will feel very good
- unless I write how I have to write
- what I have to write about.
- This is all a matter
- of how what I think about writing
- is written.
- But as far as this poem goes,
- I guess I got it fairly easy,
- since writing this poem to you
- is what this poem is written about.