Nah
just be the poet you are now, Kenneth. It's what we do...
Doug
On 2012-11-15, at 3:52 PM, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> EXPANSIVE
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> I want to be expansive. In my head
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> I see long curling lines attached with ratlines
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> To a prose fuselage, some kind of epic
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> That confuses no one and beguiles
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> With heroism, mainly mine.
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> But it never quite happens that way,
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> Instead I turn out to try lapidary
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> Careful brief lines that I cannot finish
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> Or that bore me into stopping cold
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> With cries of how little I can really do.
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> I’d like to be the poet I was 20 years go
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> But that man is dead as my parents.
Douglas Barbour
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