why this poem sucks

falling

forgive me if this poem sucks, but then again

so too does falling

what does the devil have to say about falling

he fell for a long time lucifer and his whole crappy anti-photonic crew, those dull grey angels

but milton doesn't much discuss the endless

flailing

helplessness of falling

he focuses on landing, how satan made out of hell a heaven and all that defiant latinate oratorical shit he famously utters

& how he rallied the demoralized likes of bespoke and beshat demons like beelzebub around him

gathered them up from the frozen outhouse  of hell

told them to man up

get they asses together

(forgive me but lucifer was like jordan peterson except for demons)

and comprised them into a regime

but of falling itself

milton was strangely mute

which is weird

'cause he was fucking blind

so didn't he ever tip over

(on milton's being blind yet not fearing falling many doctorates could be written )

point being

from milton on

falling itself is unexplored

though i am in a plague of falling

people my age

tripping losing their balance landing on their faces their arms their backs

more brittle than they were

coming up busted

fearful of the next time

more of us all the time

arthritic sclerotic neuro-nastily damaged

i blame paradise lost for not being truthful about this

for covering it rhetorically over

and beyond that blame genesis

which sets the stage

so adam and eve had to walk the earth

or maybe that was cain

but nobody actually toppled over

suffered the fact of falling

(footnote: it actually it was christianity that made a big deal of the fall, qua fall.)

i blame all that history

for why this poem needed to be written

which maybe it didn't

including why

i think

it's lacking . . .