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There are some things, like poetry,
that cannot come easy
if the thing is likely to last.
Some advice: don’t enter
a building or a poem (or any long-term relationship)
that is not carefully
constructed for what
you risk is
deconstruction
of all you thought
you stood upon– the present
fails to slam the past
and you fall until
you hit something more resistant.
Call it “lit.”