Best Chiseling Poems

Like Michelangelo, who with a mighty chisel 
chipped Moses's knee and afterward he felt very guilty
of having done that terrible thing with an angry will;
he was wrong at thinking it looked too real, almost fleshy;
and like Him, I expected more from my craft, 
but we...

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We were unprepared for the pandemic
now we're totally unprepared for the rioting..
before leaving for my "essential" job last night
she handed me a small blue chisel...
"To protect yourself" she said sternly.

Is it possible to chisel an angel out of an anarchist? 
I thought, while slowly shaking...

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