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Portrait of the Author as a Poet


by XXXX


I am an awful poet. My images
are stale, my line breaks predictable.
I know no other device apart from
apostrophe, hyperbaton, and the
occasional, accidental consonance.
I am an awful poet because
you are supposed to lay your life down
on the page and my life has the viscosity
of stagnant water.

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