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The driveway's looking more like a rattlesnake

with fangs hanging halfway over home plate.

There's barricade tape draped around the landscape.

'Garden Gnomes like, "It's for your own safety."

Diamond dazed by the street light's preacher gaze

when a great escape turns into "The Great Escape."

More in common with a bucket of maggots

than scabs in a satchel scared of the fabric.

So I went from hobbyist to a full fledged addict

with the mindset of "let's see what happens.''

Sat back and sprouted some wings like a snapdragon

then proceeded to prep the bandwagon with laughter.

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This is about me facing the instant dismissal of poetry as a respected art form in today's day and age and the snobbery my hectic style of writing bears. Not only am I expressing the struggle of being a poet, but also how you must overcome the pressure of self-doubt.

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