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The Author
May 6, 2023
A young women
Spills her coffee
Right on to her masterpiece.
She tears the paper
Wads it up,
And with a toss
It disappears.
She rewrites the chapter
Slightly different,
But from the same book.
Paper and pen in her hand
Writing
Noting
Explaining.
She finally finishes
Years later.
Her hands pierced with ink,
Skin torn off,
Wrinkled.
She tries to smooth the old pages,
But her story ends.
Leaving the untold pages to rot
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The author was a young woman who spent her life trying to be perfect. She rewrote her story over and over until she was an old woman. By the end of the poem, she has turned into the old whittled papers that she had once tossed into the trash; wasting her years until she has no more left.