Status Updates From Le figure di Lichtenberg

The poetic establishment has co-opted contradiction.
And the poetic establishment has not co-opted contradiction.
Are these poems just cumbersome or
are these poems a critique of cumbersomeness?

Resuming and rereading this after having set it aside last summer. Here are the first, second, and fourteenth lines of the first sonnet

The dark collects our empties, empties our ashtrays.
Did you mean "this could go on forever" in a good way?
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The chicken is a little dry and/or you've ruined my life.