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Created on: June 15, 2009
Small, neatly formed, yet often sketchy
Rhyming lines flow out and stay;
Gently molded, not too quickly,
End result, result of change.
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Maybe in their naked format,
Words seem dull and rhyme too much;
Touch on language with no purpose
Leave untold the moods within.
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So I re-arrange their voidness
Bring out the flowers, trains and towns;
Describe the moving/wholesome/living
With the inky/plastic/dead.
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