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Poem 2626

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This is an inquisition that is conducted in a hasty manner

Craig Leaf

How do you approach me, I do not beckon bright type upon the page
Untitled, poem who's foundation is blander than the poem that follows and this poem bares no urgency
(it more reminiscent to an individual 4 foot square of concrete sidewalk than a corner
A corner is somewhere people loiter )
it neither bursts or stutters into the scene, but ambles along unobserved
did you come upon this page as one comes upon a season?
it could be so,
or it could be so that you will come upon April
as you once came upon the poem, (as one comes suddenly upon summer)
with ernest reserve,
with the sublime apathy particular to those born during those few forgotten years that were never assigned a generation,
what poem?
This is an inquisition that is conducted in a hasty manner

the question as to whether in spite of the fact that this is a question that there is no doubt that the reason why is that i was not priorly aware of the fact that he is a man who had not succeeded...


Craig Leaf has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 30/11/99. Read more of Craig's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Craig's latest works: