Saturday, July 9, 2011

My Final Poem



will not be written,

read, or ever spoken.

No anthology

will ever search for

proof of authorship,

or beg my mother

to release the rights,

or find some lost draft.

My final poem,

like all of your own,

will be sickly sweet,

and wet, then dusty

as marrow hardens.

It will be boring

unless uncovered

by some future men,

put up on display:

l'homme ordinare, morts.

In either event,

My final poem

will be shattered down

to its basic parts,

its few elements

when it is eaten

with Earth, by the sun.

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