very nearly

Anything

With a sharp pencil and a cup of tea
One can very nearly do anything

If someone somehow could compromise me
That I should be a yo-yo on a string
I would cut that string by sharp poetry
That compromisers come to know the sting
Of the truth spoken albeit in love
Though love disappointed by suffering
A love tried by fire thus unafraid of
Anything so embracing everything

With a sharp pencil and a cup of tea
A chiseled nib and ink like coffee or
Cuneiform and what was tea before
One can very nearly do anything

+Steven Curtis Lance



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