Condensing*

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The poet condensed
a poem about condensing

by shortening
it up (or is it down?).

She did it in ten fewer
words than this,

leaving me to frown,
not know how to cut it up,

(or is it down?).

*idea from the poem ”Poet’s Work” by Lorine Niedecker

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