Here's a silly poem I wrote about Sarah Lucas' crocs:
to write a poem for Sarah Lucas
for the crocs she was wearing on the opening day
how they remind me of my dentist
and other professionals
standing on their feet in that solid kind of way
is the croc a shoe for women?
no! they have the air of unisex
so practical it’s quite un-arty
exactly wrrrong
that’s what Frank O’ Hara
in his Lunch Poems would say
are crocs made out of plastic?
how everything is plastic
even the car rented in Italy
driving around in a machine made out of plastic
reduces your sense of stability
to write a poem for Sarah Lucas
maybe I should let go of the shoes?
I’ve never written a poem
I tell my friend
he says it’s easy
just add
“na so was!” “ah ja!” here and there to a sentence
which will turn it, at least in German, automatically into poetry