DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Decent Recipe for Tilapia" by Jillian Weise Originally read: September 17, 2013 More information about the Poet:   Jillian Weise Written in tercets and, in the beginning, there's a distinct difference between two aspects in the beginning: a recipe and the idea of relationships forming.  During the progression of the poem, both are intertwined, and the question is why:      Tell your back home friends it means nothing      and you will drop him as soon as you have      friends in the city.  If you had more friends,      you would not sleep with him. Here the focus is the idea of proof.  The speaker is reasoning on why too keep this guy, to have the power still.  He means nothing, at least, tell that to your friends.  Already there's a sense of a facade placed here -- that the reasoning have to be external to "sleep with him," or "If not him , / who would share ...