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i don't know how to make a poet

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brokengod--veins

Published: Mar 11, 2014

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what of these words
falling out of flowers
and stars
and a bottle of whiskey

what of cummings
and sexton
and yeats

what of shoddy metaphors
of sex
dressed as love
and death
as an expanse
of horizons
when the world
shuts you
out

what of a relationship
between the pen and my veins
when she acts like a bitch
trying to hold herself together
with my hands

what with trying so hard
to get thoughts out of my skull
when the bone is trapped
in skin
like i'm trapped in a war
with the infinity
of madness

what with pouring everything out
all at once then
remold it again
and again,
softening the cracks-
too much pasting
and scissors too tired
to cut paper

why is a poet a poet?

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