So, I have been giving this some thought lately. I don’t mean it facetiously. How does one write the perfect poem?

What is the perfect poem?

Who decides what a poem is?

Who decides what perfect is?

Does that matter?

Here’s what I’ve got:

• There is such a thing as a perfect poem, but it’s super-duper ultra secret and I can’t tell you what it is.

and

• The first step in writing the perfect poem – or the perfect anything for that matter – is to have an incredibly brilliant, startling, completely true and utterly amazing  thought.

Barring that kind of thought, the perfection of your poem is pretty limited, so you should give up on perfect and just aim for amazing or brilliant.

Anyone have more insight on this? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?