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Poem 1127

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a plea

Brat Farrar

please,
i beg of you
release or return my previous poem.
I foolishly made no backup copy
(it was bad, why bother?)
but now
i
wonder
(a bit).

in my memory
(which is as honest as my six year old sister
(and as honest as i am in claiming to have one))
it gleams, a little.

there was,
perhaps,
some chrome underneath the soap-scum,
and,
when i lie to myself,
i think that it could become something more.

so, i reiterate:
release or return my previous poem,
that i might
(to coin a paltry phrase)
scrub it with the literary equivalent of tub & tile
and see what lies beneath the splatters of mental toothpaste.

Brat Farrar has published 2 more terrible poems since joining on 12/11/08. Read more of Brat's terrible poetry at the anthology. Here are three of Brat's latest works:

Reason No. 2 Why This Won't Work

Submitted Nov 28th 2008, 06:23

a plea

Submitted Nov 18th 2008, 20:25

Reason No. 1 Why This Won't Work

Submitted Nov 13th 2008, 08:13