Dilemmas of a Poet


from the ABC set poetry: on a faded page

i seem to be lost
in the corridors
of love and death
and write of nothing else.
love is covered
with a sweet syrup
the taste of which
is still in my mouth.
death is covered
with the soil
that they buried you in.

there must be something
else to write of...

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