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I Don'T Want To Write a Poem

I don’t want to write a poem, there’s nothing in the tank, no great thought or inspiration that will inspire thanks. I don’t want to write a poem, just let me watch youtube, and leave the entertaining to far more qualified dudes. I don’t want to write a poem, so Mind, leave me alone, stop saying, ‘memento mori,’ that my time is half gone. I don’t want to write a poem, this damn writer’s impulse will never just shut up and sleep, like it does for most folk. I don’t want to write a poem, just let my brain shut off, don’t make me feel that doing so is precious moments lost. I don’t want to write a poem, and think of life or death, or patterns, beats, and damned quatrains, for God’s sake let me rest! I don’t want to write a poem, but I don’t have a say, since even when I try not to I write one anyway.

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Date: 1/27/2022 10:04:00 PM
This is so clever. I can relate, it's either there or not there. What's a writer to do? Read this three times. It is clever, clever, clever
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Date: 1/27/2022 9:54:00 PM
Love that David so cleverly written …..made me smile! Debx
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Date: 1/27/2022 6:06:00 PM
David, you have expressed the sentiments of most writers so well in your light verse. It is notable that most creative people are compelled and/or driven to do what they do. Yes! Thanks for this poem you didn't want to write!
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David Welch
Date: 1/27/2022 6:52:00 PM
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

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