Tentative Poet

You taste the meat before me
Feel the medium-rare texture of
The steak, its juices oozing
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He's sure deep within
As sure as if it were
Stabbing his insides
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Instead of sitting under
the Tree of Life,
contemplating its meaning,
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Thawing my reluctance
Melting down my insecurity

Till fear gathers
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the pale sky cries.
yes, it cries the cry of birds

lost their way,
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It is certainly not a crime
If your poems do not rhyme
As a matter of fact it's now thought
It may be better if they not
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Living happily ever after became such a chore.
Their faces stiffened from all that smiling.
Gray clouds chased away blue skies, and
It rained so often they couldn't take walks
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Because he would be horrified
If he found himself inside one
He is such a serious fellow
He discusses the state of the world
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the trees outside my window
know my name

their leaves whisper secrets only rains know
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my true name is latebloomer:

i never strike when the iron's hot
or catch the early worms
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Why does she look like that,
My daughter asked at a dinner,

She meant the old lady who sat in a wheelchair,
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perhaps it's the way
the towel hangs
just so
on the stuck-on hooks
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The man sits, angle-poise on a low table
throwing light, dim orange, onto the book
he holds in his bony fingers.
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To awaken us,
Show us the honest beauty
Of our souls
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A lone swallow
Twisting turning
Against gray sky
As I put on
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the wind blew in through the window
scattered the words i was arranging

i got down on hands and knees
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here, beside the slow brown canal
where the sluggish water drags

discarded dreams away, where
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