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Here's another one.

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It's called "In
the Augean Barn".

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It's really a poem
about writing poetry.

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The Augean stable, of course,
was one of Hercules' labors.

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It was a barn that was
so huge that, by the time

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you cleaned out one end
of it, the other end

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was filled with shit again.

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And no one had ever
been able to clean it,

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and Hercules was
ordered to clean it,

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and he figured out a way to
clean it, he diverted a river

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and ran it through the barn.

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But you can't quite do
that with poetry writing,

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so this is my answer.

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"In the Augean Barn".

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Drenched, dry, drenched
again, dry again,

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trench of liquidish
shit, piss-sopping straw,

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scribble and scrawl,
blot and erase,

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drenched, dry,
smudge and crumple,

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drenched again, yet
felicity in it still,

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in the reek of
unconfidence even.

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The chemical fetor, ammoniac,
retching fear of failure.

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Poetry soup, poetry slime.

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Gag and garbage of mimed
metaphor and manure.

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Simile slime, no river gush
to unbank, no divinitied hero

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to help me, only the laboring
beast to labor behind.

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Ineradicable dung.

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Poetry love, poetry slime.

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