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                    I

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An itching desire,

A hair-trigger - obsession -   

Thirst and mirage,

Delusion and deification:

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We want what all artists want - 

The poet’s glory - the wet,

Solvent dripping from

The edge of the author’s sword.

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                    II

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Lo, the irony:

Greatness gets lost

In the skeleton of a starving

Industry, and the world -  

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In all its secreted meaning,

In all its hidden mystery,

Its puzzled purpose,

Its revelation, and its epiphany -  

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Passes us, quietly by,

As we scribble unseen greatnesses

And self-professed masteries

Against a canvas

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Of bedside sticky notes;

Upon Hilroy, 3 subject study-pads

And dry-bleached printer stock

Stretched upon a stained 

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And porous table.

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These Dreams …

As poems, as paintings,

They matter more to ourselves

Than they ever might

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For anyone else.

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