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Poetry: On poems

by Alan David Pritchard

Created on: October 29, 2008

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A poem on its side

looks like a city at night.

Upside down,

like crystals, like stalagmites, stalactites,

or blood

because we never can say

what we want to say

in a way that is

straightforward

and not shaped and edited

with rhyme and meter

to boast and soften the blow.

Words said so

mislead and hurt

like a poem

lying

on its side.

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