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I smooth out the familiar parchment of your life - gently - with the flat of my hand,
and run my finger along bridle-paths, looking like dried riverbeds etched in sand.

All the valleys, glens and the hills that I follow, are now so well-known to my touch,
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I'll kick the cat then stir the fish,
drink stale, cold coffee from a dish.
I'll rise at noon, that's my new dawn.
I find my mornings so forlorn.
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I'd like to write a sonnet to despair
but I'm no poet like Byron or Blake.
Words settle in my head and throat, stay there,
And choke me with each new breath that I take.
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Kind gentleman, step forth, I need a word.
Mock not till my diatribe you have heard,
for I would speak to you of sweet romance,
but see you raise eyebrows, and smile askance.
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And will poppies
now bloom again
in Flanders fields
as red as blood?
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You have wrinkles on your brow, mother dear,
I've bought cream to help plump them out.
Spontaneity's just fine in its place,
but do you always have to shout.
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The Last Few Days Have Been 'Sort of' Funny
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