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You Can’t Write a Poem…

May 26, 2011
By beyondnow BRONZE, Arlington Heights, Illinois
beyondnow BRONZE, Arlington Heights, Illinois
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You Can’t Write a Poem…
…About writing a poem.

Especially if the poem you’re writing
Is a poem
About how you can’t write a poem
About writing a poem.

Your poem becomes
A poem
About not writing a poem
About writing a poem
About not writing a poem
About writing a poem…

And soon you enter
The written equivalent of
A mirrors reflecting down each other
Reflections of reflections of reflections
Trapping you into
A tunnel of reflection.

But writing a poem
About not writing a poem
About writing a poem
Can soon become much more confusing
Because by then you’re already
writing a poem.


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