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by Bob Chaney

Created on: February 26, 2009 Last Updated: November 21, 2011

Excuse Me?

A singular bad habit
This writing poetry
It imposes itself upon
Life's interruptions
To clarify time
Defining moments
On paper, thoughts
Which otherwise
Might have slipped
Quietly away
To serve as no bother
To anyone
Now put down
And repeated ...aloud
It inflicts itself
This singular bad habit
Upon others

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