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why poetry?

Jack Henry

somebody asked me
why i picked poetry

i thought a moment
and realized

you can’t pick poetry
it picks you

it’s like birth
you can’t pick mom or dad

sometimes i wish i had been aborted
that way the whip wouldn’t crack

sorrow wouldn’t blur through tears
words wouldn’t hang on the edge

of salvation, teasing me, as always

i wonder what life would be like
if fame and fortune picked me

instead of poetry
maybe then someone might

call me back

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