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A Found Poem

Poem scrawled on the back of a MENS Step-Study Sign Up sheet left in a library book, The Use and Abuse of Literature, I checked out today:

 

The sleeper, though eyes closed and lying

Supine, awakens later only halfly and

The shape of the dawn comes in

Heavy ladders, steel beams

Slabs drying white to gray as they

Harden -- and feels as though

He slept not at all when the

Night was spent in dreams

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Dec 26, 2014
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