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If I am a poet, then I can write

Anything I choose to - that's because

The words often don't matter; it's the sight

Of them spread out upon the page which does

All that is essential.  What? - you want

Meaning, purpose, some integrity

To support these words - which I know won't

Begin to hint at what I want to say

But ramble on - in strict poetic style -

To fill the fourteen lines this sonnet needs,

Regardless of my object to beguile

Or yours to understand creative needs?

            Sometimes I think I should have stuck to stamps

            Where quality arrives in serried ranks.

Brian Hick January 2012

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