Michael Shepherd - ! ! The Young Poet

Poetry was something else

written by others

somewhere else

and came from

somewhere else



but the poetry

which he did not know

called one day

in a language he did not know



so he put down words on paper

and threw the paper away

but the words did not go away



and he did not know what poetry should do

until he wrote the words

which told him

what poetry could do



for only poetry can teach you poetry



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Gertrude Stein stood behind me while I wrote this.

Michael Shepherd

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