Apologised for not being good company
8.
I don’t know what this poem’s for
Not to communicate what’s happening
Because it fails there. Maybe to
Help me deal with difficult and scary feelings
By putting them into words and thereby
Making them easier to handle.
I could hate this poem
from Untitled Sequence about Water
The light on the canal
Is pretty I want to say
& watching the water
Is enjoyable. That’s all.
(The lines I wrote here
I deleted as being far
Far too sad.
In every sense of the word
Really they had to go)
richard burnett
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