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People are in fact poems May 17, 2012

 


 

People are in fact poems

We just don’t always know it,

Or show it,

Heads filled with sawdust

And though she sees me

As self-serving; I’m not,

Or I would be more

Than I am,

The scarecrow

Dorothy finds hung up

In a cornfield,

Mocked by the crows

I’m supposed to scare,

Scared of my own shadow,

Out of which I shape

All those things I fear

Just a silly straw-headed poet.

Struggling to make rims

Out of sawdust and dreams.


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