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This is not a poem about unrequited love              not a poem about the changing of the seasons,                                                     babbling brooks,                                                     cloudless skies,                                                     English gardens in full bloom              not a poem about setting suns, starry skies,                                              full moons, glittering galaxies                  not a poem about absent fathers,                                              weepy mothers or your cranky old                                              Aunt Clara in the attic plotting                                              your death while her dentures soak                                              in a Polident bath cup              not a poem about the existence or non-existence of                                                     a Supreme Being              not a poem about when you abandoned your children                                              or when your children abandoned you              not a poem about poverty, social isolation,                                              the Holocaust, war, the evils of                                              capitalism, the specter of  injustice,                                              the injustice of inequality, the                                              inequality of injustice or any other                                              word attached to the prefix "in"              not a poem about ****** conquest, ****** dreams,                                              the effects of liquor or drugs                                              on one's libido              not a poem that uses the f-word, the s-word, the c-word                                                          ...or any of the other                                                             objectionable words used                                                             to "front" the remaining                                                             letters of the alphabet This is clearly a poem about what is not a poem
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 12:02 PM UTC
Not A Poem
This is not a poem about unrequited love              not a poem about the changing of the seasons,                                                     babbling brooks,                                                     cloudless skies,                                                     English gardens in full bloom              not a poem about setting suns, starry skies,                                              full moons, glittering galaxies                  not a poem about absent fathers,                                              weepy mothers or your cranky old                                              Aunt Clara in the attic plotting                                              your death while her dentures soak                                              in a Polident bath cup              not a poem about the existence or non-existence of                                                     a Supreme Being              not a poem about when you abandoned your children                                              or when your children abandoned you              not a poem about poverty, social isolation,                                              the Holocaust, war, the evils of                                              capitalism, the specter of  injustice,                                              the injustice of inequality, the                                              inequality of injustice or any other                                              word attached to the prefix "in"              not a poem about ****** conquest, ****** dreams,                                              the effects of liquor or drugs                                              on one's libido              not a poem that uses the f-word, the s-word, the c-word                                                          ...or any of the other                                                             objectionable words used                                                             to "front" the remaining                                                             letters of the alphabet This is clearly a poem about what is not a poem
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vernon-waring
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 12:02 PM UTC
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