The Words

It’d be at best if we could swallow

Everything down with a morning coffee

Or last night shower

I wanted to live

In the time zone

No historians born or no politicians born

Perhaps no built-in duty of adulation

 To uninvited gods so far as we write, read and sing

I gulp the coffee down

And bounce back to my shell

Before all sense of poetry dies itself naturally

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