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What a poem means is not what it says, but how it says it.
This is a poem, but don’t be afraid, it can’t hurt you. You can read it without the slightest obligation. It won’t ask you to sign anything or pester you for a commitment. It will not expect you to sit quietly at your desk with your hands folded until the bell rings. You can put it on a poster on your wall or carry it in your pocket in case you ever need a poem or just leave it lying around. It is all surface, so you don’t have to worry about how deep to stick your finger into it. It will give you the same answer each time you ask it, which is more than you can say for most people. It won’t make things better or worse. If you think about it, you will be thinking of nothing. It just sits there. It doesn’t even have a clever ending.
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