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Apr 2013
One time a man told me

That for a poem to mean anything

to have any worth at all

I had to slave over it for hours

for days

for weeks

β€œsometimes months” he said to me.

Poems should be about beauty

and sometimes grace is spontaneous.
This stinks, I wrote it way too quickly.
Ben Rhoades
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