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I'm going to try
some newish poems.

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You know, I have this
bad practice as a writer,

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where I finish a book and
then I lay off for a while,

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and then I just want
to take a break.

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And then, sadly, I have
to start all over again.

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And I really have to
start all over again.

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So I don't know.

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I should be like Laynie, who
just writes all the time,

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and it's always so good.

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So I'm calling these new
poems, for no better title

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at the moment, SAD poems, as
in seasonal affect disorder

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poetry, because it occurs
to me that a lot of poetry

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falls under this rubric, right?

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Like "shall I compare
thee to a summer's day"

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or "now is the winter
of our discontent",

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so it's a venerable tradition.

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And some seasons are
different, they're

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not just-- this one will be
apparent what season it is.

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"Jumbotron".

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So far, the new year
has real likeability.

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Many of the pieces
await their instruction.

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Think of an entire puzzle
at the ready to mobilize.

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Every aspect of change
is now open for business,

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and some social contract of
quote, "maybe this time".

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And if I am only a patch of
blue sky above the corner

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of a small house, that's cool.

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I am awaiting development in
this uneven landscape piece

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by piecework, we're
living history.

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