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Rated: E · Poetry · Mystery · #1663224
When poets die, where does their poetry go?
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The poet whose body
Lies prone in his bed
Once gave us his verses
And prose …now he’s dead.

His body all curled
In a fetal position
No visible signs
Of his rare compositions.

And yet, I think of
His last poem, instead
Of the unwritten verses
Now trapped in his head.


April 1981
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