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A Meta Poem

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This page is blank.
Or it was,
moments ago.
Until the wrinkled faces of my fingertips
met the grey square tops
of each awaiting key
with a steady clicking
like the ticking of a wall clock
in an empty room.

On this page I am writing
a masterpiece, the next great
American poem of my time.
One that will be discovered
by accident in a review.
Or found hidden in my bedside
table by my sister when I die.
Published without permission.

I am a poet. A composer
of words, she who strings together
syllables and drags readers
gracefully from line to line.
Letter to letter. Stopping on the way
as if to say, “Here is my soul.
Here are broken pieces of my
life, cut and pasted into a collage
of words. Here are my epiphanies.
Here are my failures. Tread lightly.”

- Tara Smith
A poem about writing poetry.
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