all poets are human, therefore, all humans are  
poems*

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"In logic, a tautology (from the Greek word ταυτολογία) is a formula that is true in every possible interpretation."

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hardly a tightly taut tautology,
yet true this, in every possible instance

all humans, poems,

as if their portrait painted

from words dipped in a vocabulary palette

which is why,

you my million muses,

are so oft the themes of *who I write

and when foolish think there is no
inspiration in the air,
your names
each and every,
a title awaiting
finishing

oxygen
tank
says
zero

the sun made white
slivers on the wood
table and the trees
behind the shades
shivered a little
which made the water
break its reflection across
my fingers. I saw him there
knelt on the abbey floor with
a hand on my knee whispering
about how much he loved me.