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Is This What You Want? MAG

May 24, 2019
By dzhang-20 GOLD, Hillsborough, New Jersey
dzhang-20 GOLD, Hillsborough, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.<br /> – Ernest Hemingway


Mr. Editor,

please tell me

what it means

to love poetry

 

Is it to dine with her

over cheese and wine

starry-eyed as I imagine us

happily aged with new lines

 

or caress each stressed foot

in a bath, easing away cramps

under the intimate moonlight

of a flickering desk lamp

 

perhaps even dancing a delicate tango

along voluptuous curves that jut?

My bony fingers wander,

finding ways to cut

 

and break, holding back tears,

as I slash her paper spine

with my insatiable ballpoint,

leaking crimson from the crime.



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