Sincerely, An Unserious Poet

Poetry elevates the serious
into a serious expression.
What is an unserious poet
to do? I do not mean an
insincere poet, a true 
contradiction, I mean
a poet who does not 
wish to take seriously
any or all of the serious
things. I take seriously
the sincere journey to
demolish the serious,
to deconstruct the 
valuable, to turn gold
back into lead. Poetry's
alchemy, it turns out,
works in reverse. Poems
can revere anything, and 
they can even learn to 
revere nothing.