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2021-06-04T17:56:28-07:00May 30th, 2021|Creativity|

How to cook a poem

The alphabet is a shockingly
small number of ingredients
needed to make everything

from screenplays and sales orders
to subpoenas and sonnets

and I am panicked suddenly
like when I watch Iron Chef
as the twenty-six letters
sit on the table in front of me

my laptop is my kitchen knife
and at last there is nothing
left to do
in making a poem
but hack away
taste
and hope.

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