Strings and Lines

Those short short lines per stanza are supposed to be contemporary, perhaps
reflect insouciance or so
But we all know by now they only serve to be Bukowskiesque just like the many others
have imitated or so
Nothing wrong with writing longer lines
They don't discredit you any lesser
like how going to an art school makes you any more of an artist
or how cultivating an accent institutes your belonging
Nothing wrong with writing longer lines so keep dragging your sentence longer
as you would with your life as metres of yarn you would wind around the man you love to make him stay
until you run out of strings or he runs further than
the length you have
or until you strangle each other with it