Michael Shepherd Thankyou Poems

This is a thankyou for your poem
though, it may not seem like that, to you -

To be quite honest, I can't now quote
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What is a poem without a reader?

What is a reader without a heart?
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You know how it is, too?
you write a poem, it means
more than anything to you
while you’re writing it, and when you’ve
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Some thankyous are best private;
some deserve a public airing,
in case they touch someone else who's suffered:
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