lower_case

i have not read enough poetry
and i am not one to muse
or maybe think
but i do have
a question
i am one student in a freshman course
who wonders
why so many poets use only
lower case

is it artistic
is it sexy
to write as if
you do nothing but whisper

i want to be loud
i want
the survivors of death
to remember me

i will not mutter
like a fetus
trapped
undeveloped

perhaps there is
nothing to this
technicality

but there is value
in knowing how to yell
and in absolute
silence.