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What’s Written Is True

He writes about me

because he knows I like it

or to get out of his own mind

though I can’t imagine mine is a relief

 

I’m redundant

I fret and marinate and I make

things dismal

things the heart-weary understand

but tire of

I tire of me

too

 

My writing is compulsive

not compelling but compelled by

compulsion

I know it’s right

a version of what’s right

anyway

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5 responses to “What’s Written Is True”

  1. Bindo Avatar
    Bindo

    I’ve read the last two versus a few times over now…..Perhaps compulsively..

    Are we related?

  2. poeticgrin Avatar
    poeticgrin

    I write about you
    because who else
    provokes me to say things
    poetic

    like

    “you’re not a traitor”

    and who else sends me emails
    where typos (me/men)
    reveal the truth?

  3. Marcy Avatar
    Marcy

    I am especially touched by the second stanza.

    Excellent work.

  4. medicatedlady Avatar
    medicatedlady

    Thank you all. I really appreciate it.

    Bindo–figuratively speaking, we are of the same abysmal brood.

  5. Bindo Avatar
    Bindo

    yes indeed

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