These Words
glen gonzalez
These words won’t sell eggs
or slick vacations
or some kind of sauce
They won’t satisfy
a law or comply
with a character
count
They won’t align
with the edge of a
cereal box
or tell you how much
of something some-
thing is
These words are
crows clutching to the
corner of a bill-
board
a typograph-
ical . an IO
U nothing
You and
I oh are not not-
hing
We are two words
that rhythm and rhyme
We stain time like ink
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