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This is a poem that
brought me back to poetry

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after a while of not writing.

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I started making a
list of all the poems I

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wasn't going to write, and
then it turned into a poem.

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Sneaky, sneaky poem.

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The End of Poetry.

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Enough of osseous and
chickadee, and sunflower,

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and snowshoes, maple and
seeds, samara and shoot,

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Enough chiaroscuro,

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Enough of thus and prophecy,
and the stoic farmer and faith,

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and our father and 'tis of thee,

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Enough of bosom and bud,
skin and god not forgetting,

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and star bodies
and frozen birds,

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Enough of the will to
go on and not go on,

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or how a certain light
does a certain thing,

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Enough of the kneeling
and the rising,

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and the looking inward
and the looking up,

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Enough of the gun, the drama,
and the acquaintance's suicide,

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the long-lost letter
on the dresser,

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Enough of the
longing and the ego,

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and the obliteration of ego,

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Enough of the mother
and the child,

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and the father and the child,

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And enough of the pointing to
the world, weary and desperate,

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Enough of.

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Can you see me?

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Can you hear me?

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Enough, I am human,

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Enough, I am alone
and I am desperate,

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Enough of the animal saving me,

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Enough of the high water,

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Enough sorrow,

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Enough of the air and its ease,
I am asking you to touch me.

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[APPLAUSE]

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