Short Disabuse Poems

I am powerless,
The drug I can't disabuse ...
Addicted ... to YOU....

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and when she saw that vagrant man
the gears all clicked; she had a plan
to share his footsteps for a span
and then as was her style

thinking this life was his to choose
not being one to disabuse
I watched her buy some brand new shoes 
to go the extra mile

she walked beside, but what’s a shame
she didn’t even get his name
close she was, yes, close she came
yet missed it all the while
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The phrases lurch unkempt and trite.
The meter’s wrong, iambs lack grace.
One rarely ever gets it right,
and just like that, it falls in place.

The meter’s wrong, iambs lack grace
like two left feet’s unhappy dance;
success seems purely happenstance.

One rarely ever gets it right,
consuming vast amounts of time.
The process lacks both reason, rhyme.

And just like that, it falls in place.
Of brilliance, I must disabuse;
I simply want to slap the muse.
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