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Perfect Blame
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Conundrum

If I write the perfect poem

then my creation

mocks me

because it is perfect

and I know I am not.

 

The imperfect poem

is better for me

yet perfection

haunts

and I continue to strive

for its outlines

even as I concede

imperfection's continence

is more like me.

 

It may be I have to concede

that I and all of us are perfect

as we are inside

but once perfection moves outside my skin

the world taints it

with its imperfections

and I have to take the blame.

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Perfect Blame"
Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on October 1, 2010
I love this one!!! This is endlessly brilliant!
Christine


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