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HaveTales-WillTell

Published: Feb 15, 2007

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      the photo mocks me.
    write about me,
  it insists. be
right about me.

the artist
   forced
the camera's
      perspective,
then his own,
         down our throats
like the last
            acid dregs of rotgut
(or a one-two punchline).

                so where does that leave me?
                                       scrabbling
          to force another perspective,
         weaving through a minefield
     strewn with cliché upon cli—
  ^—k. _boom

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candycane2

Mar 16, 2007

I like the first stanza in your poem and my favorit stanza is when you say where does this leave me . Orin other words you can call it a hotspot in a writters work. Nice poem.

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