Your assignment: A surprisingly large number of poems are, in the end, about poetry. Write your own.
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This is just playful.
#The Lament of a Poem that won’t get written#
This poem will fail
To suck the marrow
out of long gnaw’d bone.
Yet with wagging tail
Makes a helpless show
of varying tone.
Without a subject
Still demand respect.
Leave my poetry tree
And I’ll leave happily.
Unexposed I stay
Feelings kept at bay.
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