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And Who Are You/Am I

What is love; useless;

 

you write delicately

as if words could carry emotion

amidst their vowels.

 

It sounds awkward;

the letters weigh down my tongue

With their blunt and jagged

syllables;

 

It is not real poetry;

It is the realest poetry.

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Oct 23, 2011
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