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Dec 2013

I once met a rich poet and asked him
What we writes about?
“Nothing.” he answered

2.
How many poets does it take to ***** in a light bulb
One

3.
The difference between a great poet
And a ****** poet
Is mathematically calculable
To how recently they’ve been laid

4.
When the pen ran out of ink
The poet gnawed of his finger
And wrote with the blood

5.
The lake froze over
The poet wept

6.
If you took all the poets that ever lived
And placed them in the same room
There would be many empty seats
And not nearly enough pens

7.
When a man asked him what he did
He answered, “Teacher.”
When a pretty girl asked him what he did
He answered, “Poet.”

8.
One day there will be no more poets
And a great silence will cover the land

9.
Cain was a soldier
Able was a poet
Look how that turned out

10.
Each day is a poem
Still being written on tombstones

11.
We fell in love by showing each other our poems
We fell out of love when we stopped

12.
The children Laughed and mobbed
After the soccer ball
The young poet stood
And watched a blackbird

13.
If you dream
And can remember it in the morning
Then you are a poet
Eliot Greene
Written by
Eliot Greene
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