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Best Poems From
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
(March 11,1959)
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Staying Crazy
I promised to write you a poem
Every day in a year.
Every day a new flower.
I promised to write flowers for you
I promised to write you a fairy tale
Every day in a year.
I promised something new
And I promised to collect it.
I promised to keep you high—
You were afraid you might fall.
I promised my words to your throne
To keep the foundation strong
I promised to write your memory,
And rewrite your thoughts.
I promised not to let you fall,
For my words keep the throne.
And after every promise delivered
We were crazier and did not believe
How easy it was to keep promises
And how easy it is to be crazy.
And after every word became a bird,
And every word became a flower,
We knew how good it is to be crazy—
And you loved my madness
Your fear had no basis.
You were comfortable
In your magnificent role.
We promised we would not stop.
We promised never to stop writing poems.
We promised to keep the words flying.
We promised to keep the throne fresh and alive.
We promised to stay crazy.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Stupidity
When I want to be reminded of stupidity,
Especially my own,
I turn on the TV.
Dejan Stojanovic
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The World Is Not Happy or Sad
The world suddenly became sad.
There was too much cheering,
Too much unsubstantiated hope;
Hopes were only dreams
Evaporating even faster;
What was needed was to build them
But we stood hypnotized,
Paralyzed by that sudden revelation,
Accusing the world, accusing hope,
Hoping to find another excuse
For another episode
Of postponed dying
Of something that had to die long ago to allow
Another episode of cheerful hopes;
But even hopes have limits
And in the new episode
The actors must face themselves.
Dejan Stojanovic
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Understanding
Is it possible to understand impossible?
Based on the law of probability
Everything is possible because
The sheer existence of possibility
Confirms the existence
Of impossibility.
To understand possible
Means to understand impossible.
Dejan Stojanovic
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