This is a poem, but don’t be afraid,
it can’t hurt you.  You can read it without
the slightest obligation.  It won’t ask
you to sign anything or pester you
for a commitment.  It will not expect
you to sit quietly at your desk with
your hands folded until the bell rings.  You
can put it on a poster on your wall
or carry it in your pocket in case
you ever need a poem or just leave
it lying around.  It is all surface,
so you don’t have to worry about how
deep to stick your finger into it.  It
will give you the same answer each time you
ask it, which is more than you can say for
most people.  It won’t make things better or
worse.  If you think about it, you will be
thinking of nothing.  It just sits there.  It
doesn’t even have a clever ending.


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