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I wish I could

By ugerbig

Wed, 29 Sep 2004
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I wish I could
Write a poem
About a tea pot
And catch the moment's beauty
In Raymond Carver-like simplicity

Instead I scuba-dive
Into cess pooled myth
Where I echo-sound
For my own
Loch Ness monsters.

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