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Rated: E · Poetry · None · #2352353

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If your verse
is not remembered
Then all that time
was lost

Pretty words
and clever lines
Will melt
like Winter’s frost

If what you say
is subject
To what the wind
will blow

Time better spent
the less you vent
All verbiage
— to forego

(Dreamsleep: January, 2026)
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