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An Exposition of Prose

April 18, 2012
By tennis728 SILVER, Commack, New York
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The relic of rhyme
Tossed haphazardly into a metal box
With love scribbles on paper bordered by strawberries
And a tarnished ring bought by polite coercion
Rhyming seemed too juvenile
as if the lack of verbal cohesion symbolized
adulthood.

© Rosalee M., Lowell, MA

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