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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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